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Solombala English
Etymology
From Russian слышь (slyšʹ, “hey”) + ты (ty, “you”).
Interjection
слышьты (slyšʹty)
- hey you! (appeal of English sailors to Russian port workers at the docks)
- Слышьты! ― Slyšʹty! ― Listen you!
References
- Broch, Ingvild (1996) “Solombala-English in Archangel”, in Jahr, Ernst Håkon, Broch, Ingvild, editors, Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); 88), reprint edition, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, published 2011, →DOI, →ISBN, page 94 of 93–98
- Perekhvalskaya, Elena V. (2014) Русские пиджины [Russian pidgins] (in Russian), Moscow: Direct-Media, →ISBN, page 218