strela

Persian Arrow/Persidskaia strela/with etchings by Edik Steinberg.

Joseph Brodsky - Bibliography 1987

The first SAMs with which the quiet, serious man from Amerikastan had equipped the mudjaheddin had be the Soviets 'own SA-7, known by the Russians as strela, "arrow."

The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

Yet had Dr.T. consulted an etymological dictionary of the Russian language [1] he would have discovered that the noun strela '” arrow ” and its correlative verb strelet' ” to shoot ” (in its seventeenth-century spelling) are both of South Slavonic origin; only at a fairly late date did they enter the Muscovite or Central Russian patois, out of which grew, two centuries later, the beautiful melange called the Russian language.

Cranberry Jello Tarassuk, Leonid 1978

There is no need to explain to a Russian-born person that strelyat '” to shoot ” comes from strela' ” arrow.

Cranberry Jello Tarassuk, Leonid 1978

I am still ready to assert this for the root of the word discussed is strela ” "arrow," same as in "strelyat" ” "to shoot with arrows" and in samostrel ” "crossbow."

Cranberry Jello Tarassuk, Leonid 1978