Consonantal segments in Russian

Edward M Dumanis dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu
Thu Mar 30 06:50:08 UTC 1995


On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, Edward M Dumanis wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Seth B Graham wrote:
>
> >
> > 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>
> >
>
> Yeh, and it is the only one that I know. However, with FIVE consonants,
> one can also notice a cluster with "kontr-":
> "kontrprimer, kontrpredlozheniye, kontrpretenziya, kontrpropaganda", and
> so on.
>
> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>
>

One more: I forgot about "Ne mudrstvuya lukavo."
                               ^^^^^

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>



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