свинꙗ

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Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic свиньꙗ (svinĭja), свиниꙗ (svinija), from Proto-Slavic *svinьjà f. Cognate with Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá).

Сoincided with свинѧ n (svinja, “piglet”), which is from Old East Slavic свинѧ (svinę), from Proto-Slavic *svinę n.

Noun

свинꙗ • (svinja) f animal

  1. pig, swine, sow, hog (mammal of genus Sus)
    свиньѧ котораѧ хочь и дѣлит копыто не пережꙋваетъ ― svinʹja kotoraja xočʹ i dělit kopyto ne perežuvajet
    купили свиню у мелника для ремесниковъ ― kupili svinju u melnika dlja remesnikov
    за каждую свинню давано… по копе грошей литовских ― za každuju svinnju davano… po kope hrošej litovskix
  2. wild sow, female wild boar
    риешъ вепре, свинꙗ дикаꙗ, грѣшникꙋ мизерныⸯ, в землю занꙋраешьсꙗ ― riješ vepre, svinja dikaja, hrěšniku mizernyj, v zemlju zanuraješʹsja

Noun

свинꙗ • (svinja) f pers

  1. (figurative) pig, bastard (a contemptible, rude person)
    слышачи то цар, жизнолюбиваѧ и плюгаваѧ свинѧ далсѧ звести ѡным превротником ― slyšači to car, žiznoljubivaja i pljuhavaja svinja dalsja zvesti onym prevrotnikom
Old Ruthenian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *suH- (0 c, 9 e)

Descendants

Further reading

  • Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “*свиня”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 322
  • Bulyka, A. M., editor (2011), “свинья, свиния, свиння, свиня”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 31 (рушаючий – смущенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 124
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