Questions tagged [metathesis]
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"Город, смород" vs. "град, смрад" — is there any rhyme and reason behind all the metatheses of Modern Russian vs. Old Church Slavonic?
I am sure you've come across these word pairings before:
город — град
смород — смрад
скользкий — склизкий
ворота — врата
ворон — враний
ворог — враг
холод — хлад (cf. хладнокровный)
and so on and so ...
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Is "склизкий" still alive and doing well?
When I was a child in a Russian school, склизкий was sort of the textbook example of a dialectal variation. We always found it very peculiar.
Dal gives this:
СКОЛЬЗИТЬ, скользнуть, скалзывать; или ...
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