фофоудьꙗ
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See also: фофудья
Old Novgorodian
фофоудьꙗ
Etymology
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek *φουφούδιον (*phouphoúdion), compare φουφουδότης (phouphoudótēs). Possibly related to ἐφούδ (ephoúd), ἐφώδ (ephṓd), which is from Biblical Hebrew אֵפוֹד (ʾēp̄ōḏ, “ephod”). First attested in c. 1140‒1160.
Cognate with Old East Slavic фофудиꙗ (fofudija), Russian фофу́дья (fofúdʹja), Ukrainian фофу́дія (fofúdija).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: фо‧фоу‧дь‧ꙗ
Noun
- (hapax) fofudja, a precious oriental gold-woven fabric
- c. 1140‒1160, Kovalev, Roman K., transl., Берестяная грамота № 675 [Birchbark letter no. 675], Novgorod:
- … кꙑевѣ : бг҃ъ : мьжи нама послоухо бꙑлъ : фофоудьи бꙑлъ твоихъ :ѳ҃: рьклъ ѧ собѣ …
- … kyjevě : bg:ŭ : mĭži nama posluxo bylŭ : fofudĭi bylŭ tvoixŭ 9 rĭklŭ ję sobě …
- In Kiev, God was our witness: of your fofudii, I claimed 9 for myself.
References
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 813
Further reading
- “фофоудьꙗ”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2025