Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
Роусь. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
Роусь, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
Роусь in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
Роусь you have here. The definition of the word
Роусь will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
Роусь, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Old Novgorodian
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Finnic *roocci. First attested in c. 1160‒1180.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Роусь • (Rusĭ) f[1]
- Rus
c. 1160‒1180, Kovalev, Roman K., transl., Берестяная грамота № 105 [Birchbark letter no. 105], Novgorod:+ ѿ сьмъка къ коулотъкѣ оже то ѥси казале несъдѣ вѣверичь тихъ дѣлѧ коли то еси приходиле въ роус[ь] съ лазъ(в)къмъ тъгъдъ възѧле оу мене лазъвке переѧслав[ь]лѣ- + otŭ sĭmŭka kŭ kulotŭkě ože to jesi kazale nesŭdě věverićĭ tixŭ dělę koli to esi prixodile vŭ rus[ĭ] sŭ lazŭ(v)kŭmŭ tŭgŭdŭ vŭzęle u mene lazŭvke perejęslav[ĭ]lě
- From Semko to Kulotka. what you said to Nesda about that money ─ when you came to Rus' with Lazovko, then Lazovko took it from me in Pereiaslavl'.
References
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 793
Further reading
- “Роусь”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024