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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Etymology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Etymology is the study of the origins of words.
		The search for meaningful origins for familiar or strange words is far older than the modern understanding of linguistic evolution and the relationships of languages, with its roots no deeper than the 18th century.
		Others make the word refer to exceptions of impossible cases; the priests were to perform all the duties possible to them; if any thing lay beyond their power, the exception was not to be cavilled at.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Etymology.html (1081 words)

	RUSSIAN LANGUAGE : Encyclopedia Entry
		Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three (or, according to some authorities, four) living members of the East Slavic languages, the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn, often considered a dialect of Ukrainian).
		Russian is primarily spoken in Russia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the USSR.
		Russian is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the unrecognized Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Russian_language (3926 words)

	English language - Gurupedia
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings), that began populating the British Isles around 500 AD.
		English belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		List of English words of Hindi origin, List of English words of Urdu origin)
	www.gurupedia.com /e/en/english_language.htm (2597 words)

	Russian_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Russian is also spoken in Israel by at least 750,000 ethnic Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union (1999 census).
		Education in Russian is still a popular choice for many of the both native and RSL (Russian as a second language) speakers in Russia and many of the former Soviet republics.
		The total number of words in Russian is difficult to reckon because of the ability to agglutinate and create manifold compounds, diminutives, etc. (see Word Formation under Russian grammar).
	www.school-explorer.com /Russian (3926 words)

	English
		English is descended from the language spoken in the English Isles by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who came to the British Isles around 450 AD and drove the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants to areas that are
		English loanwords now appear in many languages, especially in the fields of technology and culture, and international terminology is dominated by English words.
		English spread from Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries to North America, the Caribbean, and northern Ireland; and in the 18th and 19th centuries to South Asia and Africa.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/English.html (1303 words)

	Russian language at AllExperts
		Russian (Russian:,) is the most widely spoken language of Eurasia and the most widespread of the Slavic languages.
		Russian is also spoken in Israel by at least 750,000 ethnic immigrants from the former Soviet Union (1999 census).
		Russian is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the unrecognized Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ru/russian_language.htm (3322 words)

	List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Not all of them are of truly Russian or Slavic origin.
		the word came into English from the Russian word, biritch, which it its turn originates from a Turkic word for "bugler" (in modern Turkish: borucu, borazancı).
		Lists of English words of foreign origin
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Russian_origin (380 words)

	Russian language information - Search.com
		Russian is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the unrecognized Transnistria and Abkhazia.
		Russenorsk is an extinct pidgin language with mostly Russian vocabulary and mostly Norwegian grammar, used for communication between Russians and Norwegians in Svalbard and Kola Peninsula.
		The political unification of this region into Kievan Rus', from which both modern Russia and Ukraine trace their origins, was soon followed by the adoption of Christianity in 988-9 and the establishment of Old Church Slavonic as the liturgical and literary language.
	www.search.com /reference/Russian_language (3247 words)

	Russian language
		Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, including English, French, and Gaelic.
		Russian is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
		Modern Russian is sometimes said to begin with Pushkin, in the sense that the old "high style" Church Slavonic and vernacular Russian are so closely fused that it is difficult to identify whether any given word or phrase stems from the one or the other.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/r/ru/russian_language.html (6346 words)

	Lists of English words of international origin at AllExperts
		These are lists of words in the English language which are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages:
		List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin**
		List of English* words of Old Norse origin (often coming from Vikings from Denmark or Norway, but at the time there was little distinction between the Old Norse dialects spoken in the three Scandinavian countries.)
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/li/lists_of_english_words_of_international_origin.htm (228 words)

	Phrase and word origins
		The word "monkey" is of uncertain origin; its first known usage was in 1498 when it was used in the literary work Reynard the Fox as the name of the son of Martin the Ape.
		Originally the neck of the woods was a narrow strip of woodland connecting a larger area of woodland.
		The origin of "balls to the wall" is thought to come from aircraft pilots who pushed their joysticks ("balls") into the full thrust position (i.e., "the wall"), thereby making the aircraft go as fast as possible (see also "pear-shaped").
	www.yaelf.com /questions.shtml (8687 words)

	Top 20 Russian
		Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, including English, French, and Irish, respectively.
		Russian is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) and unrecognized Moldavian Republic of Transdniestria.
		Russian is written using a modern version of the Cyrillic (ÐºÐ¸ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ°) alphabet, consisting of 33 letters.
	top20russian.com (3065 words)

	Informat.io on Lists Of English Words Of International Origin
		These are lists of words in the English language which are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages:
		List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin
		List of English words of Old Norse origin (often coming from Vikings from Denmark or Norway, but at the time there was little distinction between the Old Norse dialects spoken in the three Scandinavian countries.)
	www.informat.io /?title=lists-of-english-words-of-international-origin (184 words)

	The Russian Alphabet
		Here is the Russian alphabet, which consists of 32 letters instead of our 26, so we have to do some maneuvering in order to provide English equivalents to all the Russian letters (and of course the sounds).
		Of course, we cheated a little by using a lot of proper names and words that are similar to words in English (because they borrowed from us, we borrowed from them, or we both borrowed from a common source).
		We are talking about the fact that every Russian word longer than one syllable has to have the correct stress placed when you say it (even silently to yourself).
	www.ic.arizona.edu /ic/atheneum/russianalphabet.html (1839 words)

	List of English words of Russian origin - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Strictly speaking, this is the list of English words possibly borrowed from Russian.
		Some of them co-exist in other Slavic languages and it is difficult to decide whether they entered English from Russian or, say, from Polish, most notable of these being vodka.
		Most of them are used to denote things and notions specific to Russia, Russian culture, politics, history, especially well-known outside Russia: vodka, intelligentsia, taiga, tundra, pogrom.
	www.jiggies.com /reference/List_of_English_words_of_Russian_origin (181 words)

	Linguist List - Ask A Linguist Message Details
		If it is possible I would like to know where I could find a list of such words (or concepts) or works where such words are mentioned.
		A more teasing type of associative difference that does come on at least the borderline with linguistics is the kind wherein two languages will have two different words for the same thing but the differences derive from two different systems of semanitc range.
		When they use "standard" English, they use the English system and mean by "read" and "brown" and "green" what Englishmen and Americans mean.
	linguistlist.org /ask-ling/message-details2.cfm?AsklingID=200369920 (1401 words)

	Words about Words
		One of two or more words that are identical in sound or spelling but different in meaning.
		Russian -ich/-vich, as a middle name (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, son of Pavlov).
		The use of nonstandard or foreign speech, the use of a word awkwardly forced into a poem's meter, or unconventional pronunciation.
	www.startwright.com /words1.htm (1633 words)

	Hungarian Russian translation
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	www.translatorscafe.com /translations/Hungarian/Russian (1509 words)

	List of English words of Polish origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of words used in the English language that were borrowed or derived from the Polish language.
		a coniferous tree; from Polish z Prus, or "from Prussia" (spruce was exported from Poland via Royal Prussia as the material for English ships)
		This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Polish_origin (266 words)

	English words from Chinese
		That is, the Cantonese word doesn’t derive from the Mandarin; both derive from an older Middle Chinese form.
		But in fact there are quite a few words we've been exposed to, as this list shows.
		First tone (mā) is just a high pitch: a word in first tone should be noticeably higher than your normal tone of voice.
	www.zompist.com /chinawords.html (1023 words)

	Russian
		Russian may refer to one of the following:
		Russian American, a citizen or permanent resident of the United States of Russian descent or origin
		The Russian, a villain from The Punisher comics
	articles.gourt.com /en/Russian (89 words)

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	www.88malls.com /articles.php?CatID=16&page=0 (2021 words)

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