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The Glosses of the Peresopnytsia Gospel

A C2 Ukrainian reading on the Peresopnytsia Gospel of 1556-1561: who made it and where, which features of living speech it shows and what its glosses reveal.

Глоси Пересопницького Євангелія

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Historical lexical variants in modern commentary: the glosses «чресла» and «бедра», «бдѣти» and «не спати», «стрѣху» and «дах», and the name variants Михайло Василієвич and Михайло Василевич.

Using the encyclopedia Ukrainian Language and the National Library of Ukraine, the text describes how the Peresopnytsia Gospel was made and reads its glosses as evidence of a search for a common Ukrainian word.

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