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Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gḗlˀis, *gḗlˀāˀ, akin to Proto-Slavic *žalь and Czech žel. Academician B. A. Rybakov, following S. A. Gedeonov, compared Желя from "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" with the Czech goddess Zelu.
Pronunciation
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛlʲɑ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛlʲa/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛlʲa/
- Hyphenation: же‧лꙗ
Noun
желꙗ (želja) f
- complaint, crying
- За нимъ кликну Карна, и Жля поскочи по Руской земли смагу мычючи въ пламянѣ розѣ
Declension
Declension of желꙗ (soft a-stem)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “желя”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “желѩ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 854