How many languages had influnced Russian?

Question by Kevin: how many languages had influnced Russian languages?
Once a russian says
Old Slavonic language + Ancient Greek + Latin = foundation of the Russian Language (+ a lot of borrowings from French and much less from other European languages + a few borrowings from Eastern languages, e.g. Arabic, Japanese, etc.).

Modern Russian has also borrowed a lot of words from English.

But are there more?
The founder of the Rurik Dynasty were Sweden, had swedish influenced Russian?how many?which words?
Mongolian had conquered the whole russian, had their language influenced Russian?how many?which words?
Hanseatic League had built a trading post in Novgorod, had their language influenced Russian?how many?which words?
Many German and denish nobles were immigrated to Russian ,had their languages influenced Russian?how many?which words?
French had influenced Russian.?how many?which words?
Russian came from Kiev, did old Ukraine influenced Russian?how many?which words?
Poland had conqurered Russia, had polish influenced Russian?how many?which words?
Did Hebrew also influenced Russian?
As the Muslim were sieging Moscow,had their languages also influenced Russian?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Mr.
Your friend was right. Most Russian stems are derived from old Slavonic roots (Greek had a lesser influence, and Hebrew was mostly limited to religious terms).

Russia did borrow a few Persian/Turkish words (some of Arabic origin), such as “Baklazhan” (eggplant), “Kashmar” (nightmare) or “Divan” (couch).

Russia also burrowed quite a lot of German words during the time of Peter the Great. These words were part of the effort to make the Russian government more similar to the West European governments. Most of these words are used in governmental or military context. Examples are “Shtraf” (fine), “Gussar” (Cavalryman), “Feldmarshal” (Field Marshall).

During the 18th and 19th century Russian burrowed a whole lot of French words. The Russian nobility usually spoke French and not Russian as first language. Therefore the French words in Russian usually refer to the finer things in life such as dancing, cooking, architecture, art and so forth. Examples are “Sos” (sauce), “Muzey” (Museum) and even the famous Ermitazh (Hermitage) of St. Petersburg is a French word transcribed to Russian.

Languages of the minorities in the Russian Empire: Polish, Ukrainian, Latvian, Estonian, Yiddish, Azerbaijani and so forth usually influenced only certain dialects the Russian language. Since Russia is a huge country, dialects are also hugely different from one another.

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