Вопрос о русской этимологии / A question on Russian etymology

[kasak.livejournal.com]

Is there some online resourse (either in English or на русском) where I can find out the origins of Russian words? Many good English dictionaries will include a brief description of how the word entered into the language, and I was wondering if there was some way I could get a Russian dictionary that does the same thing. If people could recomment something in print that I could purchase, I'd appreciate the input.

Спасибо!

Comments

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

На русском? Do you mean по-русски?

[kasak.livejournal.com]

На русском is another way of saying that, yes.

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

Cool. Didn't know that.

[a-garvey.livejournal.com]

"Этимологический словарь русского языка" Фасмера.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Vasmer's Ethymological Dictionary of Russian Language. Download or browse online using those links (http://dict.buktopuha.net/data/index.htm#vasmer). Thanks to solito.

[solito.livejournal.com]

not at all :)

[solito.livejournal.com]

Asa, note that these two ways are not fully interchangeable. По-русски is an adverb (обстоятельство образа действия = adverbial modifier of manner), "на русском [языке]" is "определение" = an attribute. The nouns usually require attributes, while verbs - adverbial modifiers.

Книга на русском (языке) - A book in Russian
Книга по-русски - WRONG
Я ответил ей по-русски - I answered her in Russian
Я ответил ей на русском - I answered her in Russian [language]
Я говорю по-русски - I speak Russian
Я говорю на русском - (though correct, it sounds awkward) I tell [it] in Russian [language]

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to steal your icon. It is... just... fantastic.

unable to convert journal into community

[kyty3ob.livejournal.com]

Dead link.
Try this: (http://vasmer.narod.ru) (plain)

and this: (http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/query.cgi?root=/usr/local/share/starling/morpho&morpho=0&basename=\usr\local\share\starling\morpho\vasmer\vasmer) (query page)

Also welcome to our community ru_etymology

[kyty3ob.livejournal.com]

sorry. It's working.