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Old Novgorodian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čȅľadь. First attested in c. 1140‒1160. Cognate with Old East Slavic челꙗдь (čeljadĭ).
Pronunciation
Noun
целꙗдь • (celjadĭ) f[1]
- peasant
c. 1140‒1160, Берестяная грамота № 1002 [Birchbark letter no. 1002], Novgorod:… на чьлѧди [вь]вьричь не [п]лат[и]л[е] е: на дьсѧте гривьно ѧ нꙑньково ѧли по коунь на ньдьлоу …- … na čĭlędi [vĭ]vĭričĭ ne [p]lat[i]l[e] e: na dĭsęte grivĭno ę nynĭkovo ęli po kunĭ na nĭdĭlu …
- … He did not pay fifteen hryvnia for the peasants. And now they took one kuna for a week. …
c. 1220‒1240, Roman K. Kovalev, transl., Берестяная грамота № 510 [Birchbark letter no. 510], Novgorod:… и розвьли есть цьлѧдь и скотиноу и кобꙑль и рожь а домажирь побѣгль нь ѿкоупивъ оу вѧцьслава из долгоу …- … i rozvĭli estĭ cĭlędĭ i skotinu i kobylĭ i rožĭ a domažirĭ poběglĭ nĭ otŭkupivŭ u vęcĭslava iz dolgu …
- You drove away the peasants, cattle, and divided up the rye, but Domazhir fled without paying Viacheslav .
References
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 816
Further reading
- “целꙗдь”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024