К вопросу о древности парного словообразования в финно-угорских языках
About antiquity of coordinational compounding in the Finno-Ugric languages

Summary/Abstract: Among finno-ugrists there is a diffused opinion about the antiquity of coordinational compounding (formation of double, or pair words) in the Finno-Ugric languages. The usage of double words in ancient texts could be strong evidence for this. But Komi written texts appear only from the 14th century, the written Udmurt, Mari, Mordvinian, Khanty and Mansi (languages which are analyzed in this article) texts appear much later. The earliest fixations of two Komi double words are found in “The Church Rule written in 1608”. Indirect evidence for the antiquity of coordinational compounding is also investigated in this article, and especially etymologically double words Komi мывкыд and Udmurt мылкыд which in [Lytkin, Gulʹaev 1970] are brought to Permian *mu˙l-ku˙d.

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