Tolstoy's "Enthusiasm"

[Edward M Dumanis]

Yeah, but I doubt that they frequently utilized Greek while speaking
Russian. I do not mean just etymology. However, revolutionary-political
sense of this word could appear in French since July 14, 1789. Did it? I
do not know.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Zielinski wrote:

> Edward Dumanis:
> 
> > Which reminds me that French was the language of Russian nobility (I do
> > not remember it now, but I guess it was from the XVIII century), and so
> > French words were mixed with Russian ones in spoken Russian. Since the
> > word "enthousiasme" exists in French, it means that from the time when the
> > revolutionary-political sense of this word appeared in French, it most
> > likely appeared in Russian as well.
> 
> One could reach further back and come to the Greek enthousiasmós, which has
> God inside - hence the religius source of that attitude...
> 
> Jan Zielinski
> 
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