etymology of smorodina
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Thu Mar 6 00:30:29 UTC 2003
>A Russian colleague has made a bet with me that smorodina (black currant)
>derives from "samo rodit". That doesn't sound right to me. Help, anyone?
No, it is from its smell, the contemporary Russian word is Church
Slavonic - smrad; smoroda has "polnoglasie".
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Alina Israeli
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