cherezpolositsa!

[Alina Israeli]

>I am right in thinking that the word, if it were to exist outside its
>narrow, agricultural meaning, would mean literally something like
>"cross-stripe" or "patchwork" or even "hodgepodge"... right? Any help is
>much appreciated. Please reply off-list.

Mish-mash. Example from BTS: V knige sploshnaja cherespolosica, net edinstva.

As to its relationship to the land reform, there may be questions. Consider
this example from the 4-vol dictionary:

Byli mestnosti, gde v odnom sele skuchivalos' do pjati-shesti gospodskix
usadeb, i vsledstvie etogo sushchestvovala bestolkovejshaja cherespolosica.
(Saltykov-Shchedrin. Poshexonskaja starina)

Could it be related to the quality of land?

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University                phone:  (202) 885-2387
4400 Mass. Ave., NW                     fax:    (202) 885-1076
Washington, DC 20016

aisrael at american.edu

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