About the Word Arbuse as one of the First Russicisms in the Language of Russian Germans
Journal: Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis
Year: 2014

Abstract The article presents the process of creation of German island dialects in Russia and in the USSR. Starting in the second half of the 18th century, people from various German regions, primarily farmers and artisans, migrated to Russia. The authorities most frequently settled them in so-called colonies, or in other words, compact country villages, which were typically separated widely from each other. Germans settled in very large numbers along the Volga, in southern Russia, Crimea, the C