Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

Hello,

> Grozny is the Terrible City, then, or is it named
> after Ivan Grozny?
No, it is an adjexctive from the verb _grozit'_, to threat, and the
original name was _Groznaya Krepost'_, i.e. "Threatening, Dnagerous,
Impeccanle Fortress", later shortened to what it is. It is common
practices for placenames to be adjectives here.

Pavel
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man'
                 --JRR Tolkien, _The Notion Club Papers_

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