14 Dec

Today

Category: Relatively unimportant

She gracefully waltzed across the living room carpet, vacuum cleaner in hand, singing the jingle to a Russian chocolate pudding commercial. She probably thought the humming noise of the vacuum would drown her out, but I heard it all.

Posted Sunday, December 14th, 2003 at 6:32 pm
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David Costa
December 19th, 2003 at 8:41 pm

just want to wish you a safe trip back home and a nice flight :)

Wes
December 22nd, 2003 at 2:34 am

Hey Tom. I’ve been studying Finnish and I wanted to share something with you that relates to what one of our teachers at MGU told us this summer. Remember how she told us that Moskva used to be Moskov’? Well in Finnish the way you say a “Muscovite” is “muskovalainen.” the “alainen” suffix is added on to the noun to make an adjective in this case. Considering the intraction between the Russ and Finno-Ugric peoples, I think this may be (just maybe) some proof that Moskov’ WAS in fact the name. Just a little FYI for fun. Take care!

tom
December 22nd, 2003 at 10:49 am

Thanks for the travel wishes, David; I made it safely.

Wes, I am dead tired and don’t have time to type up anything right now (it’s midnight, I just got back from Return of the King, and I’m not fully adjusted to this time zone yet), but I want to post something quickly.

I believe that Romanchuk might have mentioned something on this in either the History of Russian Language or Russian Manuscript Lit. class. Either way, I’m sure he could share insight.

In the meantime, here is a link to a page that mentions a section from the Rus Chronicles (1147) where ‘Moskov’ is first refered to:

http://www.kuluar.ru/Moscow/moscow1.htm

From what I gather, I assume that began to be refered to as ‘moskva’ somewhere in the second half of the 12th century, because the Chronicles call it that way when they built a tower there for the Vladimir-Suzdal principality.

Let me know if you find out any more interesting tidbits about this. Later

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