таимень

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Old Novgorodian

таимень

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnic languages, such as Karelian taimen, Finnish taimen (“brown trout”), ultimately from Proto-Finnic *taimën, from *taimi (“trout, salmon”), further origins unclear. First attested in c. 1360‒1380. Compare Russian тайме́нь (tajménʹ), Middle Russian таймень (tajmenʹ), first attested only in 1628. Derivative тайменина (tajmenina, “taimen meat”) since 1590, таймешекъ (tajmešek, “small taimen”) since 1626.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: таи‧ме‧нь

Noun

таимень • (taimenĭ) m[1]

  1. brown trout (Salmo trutta)
    Synonym: торпицꙗ (torpićja)
    • c. 1360‒1380, Берестяная грамота № 280 [Birchbark letter no. 280]‎, Novgorod:
      … ·г҃· таимени ·в҃· просоле и ·е҃· сигово ·е҃· таимени ѧко[л]и[хо]
      … 3 taimeni 2 prosole i 5 sigovo 5 taimeni jęko[l]i[xo]
      … 3 taimen, 2 of them lightly salted, and 5 whitefish and 5 Yakovlev taimen

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎ (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 805

Further reading

  • “таимень”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024
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