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Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From овьца (ovĭca) + -ѧ (-ę), from Proto-Slavic *ovьca + *-ę.
Noun
овьчѧ • (ovĭčę) n
- (diminutive) little sheep, lamb
- Ретъко, editor (1025±50?), Codex Suprasliensis (in Old Church Slavonic), page (leaf) 230, line 20:
чꙿто ѥ слово · что꙯ коварь҆ство · чꙿто ѥ҆ мꙑсль сьнитию̑ ѥ҅го · ѥ҅же въ а҅дъ · некли а҅дама съвꙙꙁь҆нꙗ и҅ намъ клеврѣта въꙁвестъ съходитъ · въ и҅стинѫ пръвоꙁъданааго · о҅вчꙙте погꙑбъшааго въꙁискатъ грꙙдетъ о̑убо ·- What is the reason, what the craft, what is the thought behind his descent into Hell? Perhaps he descends to lead up Adam, the prisoner and our fellow-servant. So indeed he goes to seek out the first-formed man, the lost little sheep.
Declension
Declension of овьчѧ (nt-stem)
References
- Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “овьчѧ”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk
- Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “овьчѧ”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae), Prague: Euroslavica
- Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26), Helsinki: University of Helsinki