"putin(ov)shchina" exists.

[John Dingley]

Hi,

Kiparsky lumps Russian -izm nouns together with -izma nouns, all
emanating from Greek -ismos, -isma nouns. Following Fogarasi, he gives
the first occurrence of such a noun as "(i)matizm(a)" from 1144.
However, it is not until the beginning of the 18th century that -izm
(sometimes spelled -ism) nouns start to come into Russian in great
numbers from West European languages, according to Kiparsky.

Valentin Kiparsky
Russische historische Grammatik
Band III: Entwicklung des Wortschatzes
pp. 210-211

John Dingley

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Quoting E Wayles Browne <ewb2 at cornell.edu>:

> Alina Israeli wrote:
>
> > -ism and -ist came into Russian in the early 20th century, I believe.
> >
> Surely both suffixes have been there longer. Even if you mean the addition of
> -ism and -ist to names of persons, there was dal'tonizm and darvinist in
> the mid-19th century.
> --
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