Church Slavicism

A form of Church Slavonicism — A word recorded in the corpus of Old Church Slavonic or some of the later Church Slavonic recensions.

Meanings

nounChurch Slavicism (plural Church Slavicisms)

plural Church Slavicisms

  1. alternativerareAlternative form of Church Slavonicism.

    The vocabulary is also that of the common people […]. There is but one Church Slavicism: во вратѣхъ.

    1953, Noel Adolph Voge, Significant Aspects of the Morphology of the Language of the Archpriest Avvakum page 37
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    The word is used only once in the Krex. ("Vzjavšy bron' pravry," 12) but the compiler of Synonoma slavenorosskaja considered it a Church Slavicism and gave it as a Church Slavic translation of the word zbroja.

    1953, Yury Šerech, “On Slavic Linguistic INterrelations: Ukrainian Influence on the Polish Language in the 16th and 17th Centuries”, in The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., volume 3, number 2 (8), page 719

    Synonyms: Slavonicism, Church Slavonicism, Church Slavism

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