[Lexicog] new nosey word

[Peter Kirk]

On 10/04/2004 12:53, Preslav Ivanov Nakov wrote:

> Well, having 4 consonants does not necessarily occur at the beginning.
> I think it is more typical in the suffixes, e.g. chuvstvo, where we have
> "vstv". By the way, the same word exists in Bulgarian too. But I cannot
> think of a Russian or Bulgarian example of 5 or more consonants in a
> raw and
> I do not believe it would be possible to pronounce it unless an implicit
> consonant is introduced (it is not, in the examples with 4 consonants).
>
> There are also some groups of up to 3 consonants in a raw at the end of
> Russian words, e.g. in the names of cities like Pskovsk (we have "vsk").
> There are no such words in Bulgarian.
>
> Preslav
>
Well, you can certainly have four consonants at the end of a word in
Russian, as in ?????? (chuvstv), the genitive plural of chuvstvo. I
can't find any examples of five or more consonants in a row, but I would
expect to find them in compounds.

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Peter Kirk
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