churches?

[wordchick.livejournal.com]

I was informed by a middle-aged taxi driver in a rural area that the difference between деревня and село was that the former had a church and the latter did not. However, when I looked in Dahl, it stated that деревня was a village without a church, and there is no entry for село at all (I use the on-line version, if that makes a difference). I accept that my driver was mistaken and that Dahl is correct, but is село not a word? I'm not sure what to make of this.

Also is there any way to anticipate which one-syllable masculine nouns will have a locative ending of y (ряд, порт, и.т.д.)? Is there a rule I don't know?

Comments

[cranberry-babe.livejournal.com]

I always thought that село is smth bigger than деревня
and it looks true according to Dahl.

[paparazzzzi.livejournal.com]

Село IS a word and - traditionally! - it has a church.

[paparazzzzi.livejournal.com]

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE

[ella-baila-sola.livejournal.com]

Село is a word and actually I've allways thought that деревня is bigger село thats the difference!

[agorbylev.livejournal.com]

That's wrong!

[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

I was taught in school the same thing: село has a church, деревня does not.

[sithoid.livejournal.com]

Originally, село had to have a church. But now it`s nothing but a spoken tradition: Soviet years (urbanisation and atheistic politics) messed it up.

[zveriozha.livejournal.com]

In fact there is no real difference between these words now.

[alon_68]

If you read Russian there is interesting discussion here:

http://community.livejournal.com/ru_etymology/822023.html

[gera-lieberman.livejournal.com]

>>> and there is no entry for село at all (I use the on-line version, if that makes a difference)

You need to find entry "селить"
Scan is here - http://i37.tinypic.com/ev1egk.jpg

[devitor.livejournal.com]

It's kinda interesting: село comes from селиться [to settle], деревня - form дерево [tree - main material for houses].

There are also посёлок [in general similar to село but smaller], хутор [smallest - as much as several houses except for казачий хутор], станица [cossac union of villages]...