X-Nico

unusual facts about Common Slavic



Ivšić's law

Ivšić's law or Stang's law is a Common Slavic accent law named after Stjepan Ivšić and Christian Schweigaard Stang who both independently discovered it.


see also

Darko

Darko is a common Slavic given name, and an Akan family name.

Proto-Slavic

# Late Common Slavic (c. 800 — 1000 CE, although perhaps through c. 1150 CE in Kievan Rus', in the far northeast): The last stage in which the whole Slavic-speaking area still functioned as a single language, with sound changes normally propagating throughout the entire area, although often with significant dialectal variation in the details.

Proto-Slavic borrowings

Common Slavic *xъmelь, common hop (Humulus lupulus)' < Turkic (cf. Chuvash xӑmla, hop-plant < *qumlaγ) < Iranian (cf. Ossetian xumællæg, hop-plant < *xaum-ala-ka, from *xauma, soma/haoma);