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[augerot]

Sorry, my UTF-8 Cyrillic failed to come through, the message was:

Perhaps these are nouns derived from imperative phrases:
"derzhimorda, derzhiderevo" come to mind as parallel constructions. Even
"spasibo" may be traced back to such a construction.

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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, William Ryan wrote:

> I am sure you are correct but can't read your examples - what encoding are you 
> using?
> Will Ryan
>
>
> augerot wrote:
>> Perhaps these are nouns derived from imperative phrases:
>> держиморда 
>> держидерево 
>> come to mind as parallel constructions. Even 
>> спасибо may be traced back to such 
>> a construction.
>> 
>>   
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