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2015. № 1 (4), 391-402

Moscow State Pedagogical University

Abstract:

The paper presents a general overview of Issues Four through Eight of A. E. Anikin’s Russian Etymological Dictionary, proposing a handful of additions and refinements to individual etymologies included in the volumes under review. Overall, the level of the work and the importance of author’s contribution to Russian etymology are evaluated favorably.