Talk:въскръснѫти

Russian

I entered the Russian word, then thought "OCS is proto South Slavic, not proto East Slavic". But this is a Christian word, and Christianity was introduced to the South Slavs first. So can the Russian word be said to descend from this word? PierreAbbat 11:57, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

it's all Greek to me — This unsigned comment was added by 216.224.124.124 (talk).

I'll just quote from this page:

Although Old Church Slavonic (OCS) is the oldest documented Slavic language, it is not the language from which the other Slavic languages evolved any more than Sanskrit is the language from which the other Indo-European languages evolved. Rather OCS is now thought to be a dialect of one of the branches of the Slavic languages.

It is supposed, however, that in the 9th Century the dialectal differences were still minor enough that mutual intelligibility was possible across a wide expanse of the Slavic-speaking community.

Nevertheless, the written language continued to exert an influence of its own, even beyond the regions of its origin. For example, in the 11th Century one finds in Old Russian, on the geographical extremity of the Slavic community, constant stylistic and lexical borrowings from OCS as its own literature develops..

So basically it could and has influenced Russian, but etymological resources (like Vasmer's dictionary) should be consulted for a specific lexeme. The root *krьsnǫti is Proto-Slavic, but I have no clue whether Russian got воскреснуть from OCS or it evolved separately.

I already mentioned this question of cognates of "potentially common etymology" (which, in the absence of paperback evidence from that period cannot be neither proved nor disproved) to mr. Stephen here. I was thinking of making a template similar to {{romance cognates}} that would link cognates in various Slavic languages who (provably) don't share OCS origin, but only Proto-Slavic ones, since hypothetical *xxx forms don't get articles in wich list of "descendants" could be made. --Ivan Štambuk 20:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)