Consonantal segments in Russian

[Seth B Graham]

On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Edward M Dumanis wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, TONY HALL wrote:
>
> > Can anyone out there think of examples in Russian (old or modern;
> > standard or dialect) of FIVE consecutive consonantal segments, either
> > written or spoken? A syntagmatic sequence will do, also. If there's
> > interest, I shall post a summary.
>
> Will "sentyabr'skij, oktyabr'skij, noyabr'skij, dekabr'skij" do?
> What's about "kantrskij" (belonged to a cantor), "rotmistrskij" and so on?
>
> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

A Russian linguist friend once gave me an example of a word, albeit
questionable in taste and in lexical viability, with SIX consecutive
consonants, to wit: "vzbzdnut'"

Seth Graham <sbgst8+ at pitt.edu>