V.I.Dal: not Russian, but Russian

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In his dictionary, Dal explains that in the old days they wrote “Russian” with one “s” - Pravda Ruska; only Poland called us Russia, Russians, Russian, according to the Latin spelling, and we adopted this, transferred it to our Cyrillic alphabet and write Russian!

Vladimir Dal argued that it is wrong to write "Russian" with two "s", and wrote with one (Russian language, Russian people, Russian land …). In the annals one "s" - Russian, Russian. Where did the second "C" come from?

According to the rules of Latin spelling, if the letter "C" is one, then it reads like [З], and if there are two "SS", then it reads [C]. In Russian, the letter "C" is always read [C] and is doubled very rarely, for example: quarrel, lend.

Russian or Russian

Why double consonants, when it is contrary to our language, and with good pronunciation, cannot be heard?

IN AND. Dahl

Russia is the Russian people and the name of the Power (the Power itself is the people that itself governs their lives - Power Russia). Russia is a plural form = Russian people. Later they began to speak RUSS, and in the singular RUSIN - r [ou] sin (m), r [ou] ska (f).

Simultaneously with the name RUSIN, the word RUSAK was used.

1. Rusak - a person with traits of a Russian folk character - a good simple Russian person. [Dictionary of D. N. Ushakov]

2. A Rusak is generally a Russian man, a Rusak is a Russian. [Dictionary of V. I. Dahl]

3. I am not a German, but a natural hare! - A. V. Suvorov.

For comparison:

Rusin - Tatar, Busurman, Nemchin, Jew, Latin, etc.

Rusak - Pole, Slovak.

The neologism Rusichi is the only one found only in "The Lay of Igor's Host."

We are Russians, not Russians.

Rusak - Russian language … Russian culture, etc.

Russian - RUSS (Great Russians, Little Russians, Belarusians)

Russians are Eastern Slavs (Rus, Ukrainians, Belarusians) - in descending order of number. The plural form - rus, later - rus; in the singular - Rusyn, Rusak.

Russia is not only the name of the people, but also the name of the land where Russian people live. The earliest mentions of Rus are found in the Tale of Bygone Years - "Novgorod Rus" and "Rus' campaign to Constantinople". In the summer of 6390 (882), Prince Oleg the Prophet captured Kiev and declared it the capital of Russia:

"And Oleg, the prince, sat in Kiev, and Oleg said: Let this be the mother of the Russian cities."

* In the XV-XVI centuries, with the spread of Christianity (Greek religion), the name "Russia" began to be used in church-book, and then in official documents. Accordingly, instead of Great, Little and White Russia, Great Russia (Great Russia), Little Russia (Little Russia), White Russia (Belarus) appeared.

* In the 17th century, under the influence of the Greek language, the book form of ross (adjective rossky) appears.

* In the 18th century, the word Rossi receives its final form - Russians, but it did not denote all residents or subjects of the Russian Empire, but ethnicity to the Russian people. In the Russian Empire, Great Russians, Little Russians, Belarusians - they were one Russian people.

* In the 19th century, the Russian people replaced the alien “Russians” with the word “Russians”, only they forgot about the double SS, which V. I. Dal (see Russian with two "S" - wrong).

* In the twentieth century, after the Great Jewish Revolution of 1917, Russians began to denote only Great Russians. And they "forgot" that Russian is an adjective, not a noun. To the question "who?" the answer is always a noun. For example, a person is English and his language is English; French - French, Chinese - Chinese, etc. And only in relation to Russian people is an "exception" made, to the question "who?" the answer is Russian, and his language is also Russian.