Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats
The Old Russian word ti(v)un is one of the few medieval loanwords from Old Norse which has been preserved in Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian to this day. Medieval judicial charters and legal texts from Scandinavia and East Slavic territories show that there was a significant semantic shift around...
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Karolinum Press
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.karolinum.cz/doi/10.14712/24646830.2019.27 |