Section of Historical Linguistics on April 11th, 2005.

Supervisor - professor Leonard Herzenberg.

Reports were divided into 2 main thematic groups: 1. etymological and 2. theoretical

So, after professor Herzenberg's opening speech
 

Yekaterina Volkova

 

 

 

opened the sitting by the report

"Some Remarks on the Etymology of *perd-, *perd-s-"   (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Panther) in the Indo-European Languages
Piotr Kocharov

 

 

  

 

 

in his report under the laconic title of "Europe" discussed etymology of the corresponding toponym

 

 

 
Yekaterina Kuzmicheva, Murmansk /"Etymology of Names of Fish in Swedish"/

 

 

 

 

continued the etymological investigation of fauna 

 

 

 
Yevgeniy Popov /"Etymology of Lynx in the Indo-European Languages"/

 

 

talked about one more representative of the cat family from the etymological point of view 

 

During the break professor Herzenberg treated the participants and the guests in the canteen 

 

After the break...

 

Yelena Runova (Faculty of Philology) and Denis Bugaev (Faculty of Oriental Languages) made a common report under the title

 

 

"Mitannian"

 

 

 

 

Alexander Rostovtsev-Popel /"Texts of Megrel"/

 

discussed the text of Megrel dialect

 

Gulnaz Yaminova /"Analysis of Tatar religious text from the beginning of XX c."/

 

talked about Tafsir

 

 

Closing the section professor Herzenberg gave everybody the text

containing the phrase "I love You" in 208 world languages 
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