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The Old Church Slavonic Bible (translated by 10 century Byzantine scholars) uses a word which now means "vital, necessary, important" in modern Russian, and is
by kgeist 5y ago
The Old Church Slavonic Bible (translated by 10 century Byzantine scholars) uses a word which now means "vital, necessary, important" in modern Russian, and is widely used to this day.
- pvg 5y ago10 century Byzantine scholars 9th century and not Byzantine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Church_Slavonic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Church... but by that point, at least according to the article, the meaning was already unclear
- kgeist 5y ago>Cyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries. OK, 9th century, not 10th. >but by that point, at least according to the article, the meaning was already unclear Well, the article mostly mentions Catholic Church and the problems translating the Vulgate. The same Vulgate which gave us "horned Moses" and other mistranslations. I thought maybe the Orthodox church has no trouble with the word.
- pvg 5y agoThe translations were almost certainly not personally done by them. That's the purpose of the Preslav School in the linked wikipedia thing. Well, the article mostly mentions Catholic Church and the problems translating the Vulgate. I guess I see a papally-commissioned translator's difficulty with this 500 years before OCS translation as evidence it was already confusing then. "horned Moses" is a sort of layering of confusions over time. Maybe I'm putting too much stock in the pope!
- dmix 5y agoThe language itself > is thought to have been based primarily on the dialect of the 9th-century Byzantine Slavs living in the Province of Thessalonica (in present-day Greece).
- panzerklein 5y agoIt's насущный, right?