Who is the East Slavic Karachun? (Word, Name, Character)

The paper explores the origin and semantics of the word karachun (korochun) having a vast specter of meanings in East Slavic languages (including Russian). It could mean ‘death’ (especially sudden and violent); serious illness’, ‘the end as a negative result, cessation, exhaustion of something’, ‘ev...

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Main Authors: Elena L. Berezovich, Olesya D. Surikova
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2023-07-01
Series:Вопросы ономастики
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Online Access:http://onomastics.ru/en/content/2023-volume-20-issue-2-7

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