торпицꙗ

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Old Novgorodian

торпицꙗ

Alternative forms

Etymology

By surface analysis, *торпа (*torpa) +‎ -ицꙗ (-ićja). Borrowed from Finnic languages, such as Livvi torpu, Karelian torppa, torppu (“trout”), Ludian torp (“brown trout”), Veps torp (“trout”), where also Finnish torppu (“trout”), further origins unclear. First attested in c. 1420‒1430. Compare Russian то́рпица (tórpica), dialectal то́рпа (tórpa), Middle Russian торпа (torpa), first attested only in 1563.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: то‧рпи‧цꙗ

Noun

торпицꙗ • (torpićja) f

  1. trout (Salmo)
    Synonym: таимень (taimenĭ)
    • c. 1420‒1430, Берестяная грамота № 1148 ‎, Novgorod:
      … лаꙁорю коробоцка ікри да торпица ꙁехъну торпицѧ да сухꙑхъ ∙ да федору торпицѧ церници{ѧ} лосось ∙ …
      … lazorju koroboćka ikri da torpića zexŭnu torpićę da suxyxŭ ∙ da fedoru torpićę ćernići{ję} lososĭ ∙ …
      Lazar a box of caviar and trout, Zekhn trout and dried fish, and Fedor trout. Chernitsa salmon …

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Gippius, A. A. (2023) “Берестяные грамоты из раскопок 2022 г. в Великом Новгороде и Старой Руссе”, in Вопросы языкознания ‎ (in Russian), number 5, Moscow: Nauka, →ISSN, page 12
  2. ^ Myznikov, S. A. (2019) “то́рпа”, in Русский диалектный этимологический словарь. Лексика контактных регионов ‎ (in Russian), Moscow, Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 798
  3. ^ Vasmer, Max (1973) “то́рпа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), volumes 4 (Т – Ящур), Moscow: Progress, page 87
  4. ^ Gippius, A. A. (actor) (November 8, 2022), “№ 1148” (26:45 from the start), in Берестяные грамоты из раскопок 2022 г. (in Russian), Institute for Slavic Studies RAS

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