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Old Novgorodian
Etymology
By surface analysis, *хѣре (*xěre, “gray”) + -ь (-ĭ). Possibly inherited from Proto-Slavic *śěrь (“grey cloth”), from *śěrъ (“gray”) with pre-secondarily palatalized *x-. Compare Old Czech šěř, Czech šer (“grey cloth, linsey-woolsey, pathetic clothes”).[1] First attested in c. 1360‒1380.
It was mistakenly assumed to be borrowed from Middle Low German gêre, gere, gir (“wedge-shaped piece of cloth”).[1]
Noun
хѣрь • (xěrĭ) f[2]
- grey cloth, linsey-woolsey
- Synonym: водмоле (vodmole)
c. 1360‒1380, Берестяная грамота № 130 [Birchbark letter no. 130], Novgorod:у вигарѧ :к҃: локото хѣри беꙁо локти у валита в кюлолакши :і҃:д҃: локти хѣри у ваиваса у ваѧкшина :і҃в҃: локти водмолу и поло третиѧ нацате локти хѣри у мѣлита в куролѣ :д҃: локти хѣри- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “Отсутствие эффекта второй регрессивной палатализации”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 43
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 815
Further reading
- “хѣрь”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024