Ozimye + ssudy
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Wed Jun 4 12:36:49 UTC 2008
There are apparently two types of озимые, those planted in the fall
and those planted in the spring: http://bse.sci-lib.com/
article083839.html
Ssuda could refer to grain, I suppose. Ssudit' (chem–to) could refer
to any type of loan. For example: Он ссужал хлебом попавших в беду
мужиков, но только непьющих (http://www.istina.religare.ru/
article254.html).
>
>
> It appears that, even though ALL their stock of grain was
> confiscated in the
> summer, they were able to sow their ozimye. Is it conceivable that
> the
> ozimye were sown early in the summer, before their grain was
> confiscated?
> That is the only way I can make sense of all this.
>
> **************
>
> I’m also puzzled by ‘ssudy’ in the next paragraph. Bread could not be
> bought anywhere, and the peasants were not allowed to leave their
> villages.
> What use would money have been? Is it possible that ‘ssudy’ could
> mean a
> loan of seed rather than of money?
Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC. 20016
(202) 885-2387
fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu
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