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Old Novgorodian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svinьjà, ultimately from *svinъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *swīˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-iHnos, from *suH- (“pig, hog, swine”). First attested in c. 1120‒1140. Cognate with Old East Slavic свиньꙗ (svinĭja), Old Ruthenian свинꙗ́ (svinjá), Old Church Slavonic свиниꙗ (svinija), Old Polish świnia.
Pronunciation
Noun
свиньꙗ • (svinĭja) f[1]
- pig, swine
References
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 795
Further reading
- “свиньꙗ”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024