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Russian
Etymology
From дре́вний (drévnij, “ancient”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
дрѐвне • (drèvne)
- (history) ancient (Relating to antiquity as a historical period)
- дрѐвне- (drèvne-) + ри́мский (rímskij, “Roman”, adjective) → дрѐвнери́мский (drèvnerímskij, “Ancient Roman”)
- дрѐвне- (drèvne-) + восто́чный (vostóčnyj, “eastern; oriental”) → дрѐвневосто́чный (drèvnevostóčnyj, “relating to the ancient Near East”, literally “ancient Oriental”)
- (linguistics) old (denoting an ancestral form of a language)
- дрѐвне- (drèvne-) + ру́сский (rússkij, “Russian”) → дрѐвнеру́сский (drèvnerússkij, “Old East Slavic”, literally “Old Russian”)
- дрѐвне- (drèvne-) + гре́ческий (gréčeskij, “Greek”) → дрѐвнегре́ческий (drèvnegréčeskij, “Ancient Greek”)
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