Re: [tied] Re: river name

On 2006-07-09 18:32, Daniel J. Milton wrote:

> "Kara" means black" in Turkic languages, so I guess "Muren" means
> "river" in Mongolian (and related languages?) and "Amur" would be a
> Russian corruption thereof.

It's a Tungusic word meaning 'river, lake' (PTung. *a:mu-).

> On the subject of the Amur, in 1689, the Treaty of Nerchinsk was
> signed between Russia and China, which stopped the farther advance of
> the Russians into the basin of the Amur for two centuries to come.
> Question: What was the working language of the Nerchinsk conference?
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> Answer: Latin, spoken by Polish noblemen on the Russian side and
> Jesuit missionaries on the Chinese.

Question: Where had the Polish noblemen been trained in conversational
Latin, based on Manoel Alvar's "De Institutione Grammatica (Libri Tres)"?

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Answer: Jesuite colleges in Poland, in most cases.

Piotr