Timeline for What is the etymology of "блондиться"?
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| Nov 4, 2016 at 16:03 | vote | accept | shabunc♦ | ||
| Nov 3, 2016 at 11:07 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | @shabunc - I'm sure I'm right, the word is a borrowing from Polish. The original form was блѫдъ /blɔ̃dŭ/, and of all the Slavic languages only Polish has kept the nasals, so if in a modern Slavic word you see or hear a nasal reflex of an old nasalized vowel, you can be 100% sure the word is Polish or of Polish origin. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 16:56 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | @shabunc - Валандаться is a borrowing from Lithuanian, Lith. valanda 'time period, hour'. Russian валáнда 'sluggish person'. That's what Vasmer says. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 16:49 | comment | added | shabunc♦ | I wonder whether валандаться share the same origin. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 16:37 | comment | added | shabunc♦ | I've updated the question. Not sure that this is borrowing though rather than a cognate which evolved indenpedently from Slavic. Still good answer though. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 16:34 | history | answered | Yellow Sky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |