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Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *jьz koni.
Adverb
искони • (iskoni)
- in the beginning, from the beginning
Old East Slavic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьz koni or likely borrowed from Old Church Slavonic искони (iskoni).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɪskɔˈni/→/jɪskɔˈnʲi/→/jskɔˈnʲi/
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /jɪskɔˈni/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /jɪskɔˈnʲi/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /jskɔˈnʲi/
Adverb
искони (iskoni)
- in the beginning
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “искони”, 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), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1116
- Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2014) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije. Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ”, in Languages of Slavic Culture (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 249
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic искони (iskoni), from Proto-Slavic *jьz koni.
Pronunciation
Adverb
искони́ • (iskoní)
- (archaic, literary, poetic) since olden times, from of old, from time immemorial
- Synonyms: издре́вле (izdrévle), и́сстари (ísstari), споко́н веко́в (spokón vekóv), споко́н ве́ку (spokón véku)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:искони.
Derived terms
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “искони”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “искони”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 357