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Russian words first recorded in the 16th century

3 Russian words whose earliest known written record dates from the 16th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. солдат

    1515

    It is borrowed from German Soldat (borrowed from French soldat according to Chernykh and Shaposhnikov), from Italian soldato. The sources differ on the channel. Vasmer allows German, Dutch soldaat…

  2. ляда

    1570

    It continues Proto-Slavic *lędo (“uncultivated land”). Old Russian had Old East Slavic лядина (ljadina, “waste land, weeds, thicket”) and лядѣти (ljaděti, “to become overgrown”). The Slavic…

  3. мама

    1600–1699

    It is inherited from Proto-Slavic *mama, a word of children's speech. It is found in all the Slavic languages: Ukrainian мама (mama), Belarusian мама (mama), Bulgarian мама (mama), Serbo-Croatian…

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