жовтобрухъ

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Old Ruthenian

жовтобрухъ (sense 1)

Alternative forms

Etymology

First attested in c. 1598–1599. From жовтый (žovtyj, “yellow”) +‎ -о- (-o-) +‎ брухо (bruxo, “belly”) +‎ -ъ, literally “yellow-bellied”.[1] Cognate with dialectal Russian желто́брюх (želtóbrjux).

Noun

жовтобрухъ • (žovtobrux) m animal

  2. legless lizard (sheltopusik, Pseudopus apodus)
    • 18th century, “Рукопис Степана Теслевцьового”, in Франко, І. Я., editor, Апокріфи і лєґенди з українських рукописів (Памятки українсько-руської мови і лїтератури; 2), Т. 2: Апокріфи новозавітні, Львів: Наукове тов. ім. Шевченка, published 1899, page 175:
      Єс єще єдина гадина жовⸯтобрꙋх, довга ꙗк Оузѣнь.
      Jes ješče jedina hadina žovtobrux, dovha jak Uzěnʹ.
      There is another reptile is a sheltopusik, as long as Uzyn.
  3. species of snake

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1985), “жаўтабру́х”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 3 (га! – інчэ́), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 221

Further reading

  • Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1932), “жовтобрухъ”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 2 (Г – Ж), Kharkiv, Kyiv: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, page 936
  • Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2002), “жолтобрухъ, жовтобрухъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 9 (дѣдичъ – загонити), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 175
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