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Questions about tracing out and describing the elements of an individual word, as well as the historical changes in form and sense which that word has experienced over its history. Please use the 'phrase-origin' tag for phrase/expression origins.
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How did the word "Soviet" end up with an -ie-?
The orthographic form of the English word may have not actually been borrowed from Russian, but from French, where it is used with the meaning 'council in Slavic countries' since 1840. Besides the att …
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How did the word "Soviet" end up with an -ie-?
The Etymonline entry for "soviet" states:
1917, from Russian sovet "governing council," literally "council"…
Likely I am not the only one to wonder about the reason behind the apparent differenc …
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Why does vowel length of Middle English trust not match its probable Old Norse etymon traust?
It's natural to expect retention of vowel length when a word is borrowed from ON to ME, and that's indeed what happened with e. g. ME adj. lọ̄s 'free; loose' from ON lauss.
However, ME n. trust is sta …
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