dialect

[wordchick.livejournal.com]

Recently, I've been reading a novel by Boris Akunin for practice and for pleasure. I know he's Georgian, but I've heard he writes in a rather elegant Russian (for a mystery writer, anyway). However, the more I read, the more words I come across that sound like... Ukrainian? I know Slavic languages have a lot of spillover, with words that are modern in one language sounding laughably archaic in another (e.g. очи, персть). That said, how many of the following words or phrases are understood by native speakers of Russian in that country? And are they understood to be standard language, old-fashioned, country dialect, or foreign?

чуять
до дому
хлопчик
коли
смачный

There are surely others, but these are the ones that stand out in my memory.

Comments

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Actually, all of them are ukrainisms (however couple of them are indeed present in Russian, if obsolete), but still easily understandable by most Russians -- Ukrainian and Russian are for the most part mutually understandable as well. There's still very active language interaction between, and a mized dialect (so called суржик) exists.