Obsolescence

[Janneke van de Stadt]

Dear colleagues,

I have an unusual question I would love answered.  I am trying to  
establish, generally speaking, when the word "klistir" became  
obsolete and was replaced by "klizma."  Dal' (1881) defines the first  
vaguely as "promyvatel'noe" and does not list the second.  A four- 
volume dictionary published by the Academy of Sciences in 1958 lists  
"klistir" as obsolete.  I don't have access to a dictionary published  
before 1958, but, if anyone out there does, I would love to know what  
was happening with these terms in the twenties and the thirties.

Many thanks in advance!

Janneke

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