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[Wayles Browne]

>Dear Colleagues,
>   I would like to find out when the label "Old Church Slav(on)ic"
>began to be used.  My impression is that  "staro-tserkovno-
>slavianskii" only gained currency in the later 19th century (perhaps
>by analogy to other "old" languages?).  Can any of you help here?
>   Thanks,
>   M. Levitt
>
 From the Oxford English Dictionary under Slavic:

        1876 Whitney Language and its Study vi. 214 Old Slavonic, or
the Church Slavic, having been adopted by a large part of the
Slavonian races as their
        sacred language.

 From ibid. under Church:
1850 Talvi Lang. & Lit; Slavic Nations i. 25 (heading) History of the
Old or *Church Slavic (commonly called Slavonic) language and
literature.
1853 J. S. C. de Radius Lang. Slavic Nations i. 14 The *Church
Slavonic proved to be an older branch of the original Slavic.
(Talvi, or Talvj, was the pen-name of a German-American writer and translator,
Therese Albertine Louise van Jakob, who beginning in the 1830's
published the first reliable information about Slavic languages and
literatures ever to have appeared in North America, so far as I know.)


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Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

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