Declension
Verbs and Numbers
Lexicon
Dialects
Modern Standard Russian
100
очи, уши, плечи and колени are remnants of this archaic category
What is dual?
100
A Novgorod term for a certain size bag for pelts
What is сорок?
100
The word for this large fruit, borrowed from Turkic, is also a slang term for ‘billion’
What is ‘арбуз’?
100
Due to historical/political reasons this West Slavic language had a more pronounced influence on Ukrainian and Belarusan (compared to Russian)
What is Polish?
100
This ecclesiastical language was long used as a literary version of Russian
What is Church Slavic/Slavonic?
200
The construction “пойти в гости” violates this MR grammar rule
What is animacy?
200
These 5 terms had a far-reaching effect on the MR number system
What are 5 – 9?
200
Russian terms for family members can be traced back to this period of development
What is PIE?
200
This East Slavic language still has the original CS infinitives in –ти for all verbs
What is Ukrainian?
200
A treasure-trove of birchbark manuscripts were discovered here
What is Novgorod?
300
These are the only two remaining s-stems in MR
What are небо and чудо?
300
In MR this tense replaces the archaic aorist tense
What is (perfective) past?
300
Russian бутерброд, шпинат and танец were borrowed under Peter the Great from this European language
What is German?
300
This East Slavic language not only has akanje in pronunciation, it also reflects it in the orthorgraphy (вада ‘water’)
What is Belarusan?
300
He created the Theory of Three Styles for selecting appropriate vocabulary for a given written genre
Who was Lomonosov?
400
The only MR example of EES masculine i-stems
What is путь?
400
In all Slavic languages EXCEPT Russian this verb form has only a single –Н-
What is a past passive participle?
400
MR extended the term палец to include all of these
What are fingers?
400
In Southern Russian dialects this phoneme is pronounced like /h/
What is Г?
400
He died as a result of a duel, but not before standardizing MSR
Who was Pushkin?
500
This declension disappeared in MR leaving traces in phrases such as ‘на борту’ and ‘чашка чаю’
What is the u-declension?
500
Originally the Russian future tense used буду, будешь plus this form of a verb
What is past or L-form?
500
Колхоз and вуз are examples of the Soviet penchant for this
What are acronyms/abbreviations/stump-formations?
500
Replacing Ч with Ц (as in цапля-heron) is a feature of this geographic region
What is Novgorod or Northern Russia?
500
He was an influential Soviet writer who was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974
Who was Solzhenitsyn?
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