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In this contribution we conduct linguistic and historical research on a Dutch-Russian glossary from the early seventeenth century discovered not so long ago and published in Russian in 2017. The concise word list is the oldest surviving testimony to date of language contact between Dutch and Russians. Based on the provenance of the manuscript in which the word list is located and on the semantic fields found in it, we argue that it should be associated with the northern Russian port city of Arkhangel on the White Sea. Here the Dutch traded with the Russians as early as the sixteenth century. The Dutch part of the glossary shows that a North Holland dialect north of the IJ and especially West Frisian qualify as the informant’s area of origin. This assumption is consistent with historical research on the origins of Dutch traders at Arkhangel from the late sixteenth century onward.
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