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Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1930s

Pavlovian

from павловский

Meaning
Of Ivan Pavlov — the conditioning experiments with dogs.
Source word
павловский
Route into English
Behaviourist psychology → general English after Pavlov's 1904 Nobel Prize.
Arrived
1930s

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