Appendix:Russian doublets

East Slavic – South Slavic
The native Russian words typically exhibit the East Slavic, while the borrowings from Old Church Slavonic typically exhibit the South Slavic.

Church Slavonic loanwords are often archaic, religious, literary and represent abstract concepts, while their native counterparts tend to be more concrete.

A special case is the orthographic loan of раз- prefix (🇨🇬), which ousted original East Slavic роз- from unstressed positions. As a rule, роз- and раз- are just one and the same suffix, but conventionally the former variant is written in stressed positions with the latter elsewhere, and when stress moves, the vowel letter changes as well (e.g., – ). However, there are caveats with the derivations from nouns with prefixal stress: