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Old Novgorodian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zamъkъ. First attested in c. 1025‒1050. Cognate with Old East Slavic замъкъ (zamŭkŭ), Old Ruthenian замо́къ (zamók).
Pronunciation
Noun
ꙁамъке • (zamŭke) m[1]
- lock
c. 1025‒1050, Schaeken, Jos (2019) Voices on Birchbark (SSGL; 43), Leiden, Boston: Brill, transl., Берестяная грамота № 247 [Birchbark letter no. 247], Novgorod:… а ꙁамъке кѣле а двьри кѣлѣ а господарь въ не тѧжѣ не дѣе …- … a zamŭke kěle a dvĭri kělě a gospodarĭ vŭ ne tęžě ne děje …
- But the lock is intact, the door is intact, and the master for that reason is not pursuing damages.
c. 1340‒1360, Schaeken, Jos (2019) Voices on Birchbark (SSGL; 43), Leiden, Boston: Brill, transl., Берестяная грамота № 358 [Birchbark letter no. 358], Novgorod:… · к житници свои ꙁамокъ приложи · …- … · k žitnići svoi zamokŭ priloži · …
- Attach your own lock to the granary.
c. 1380‒1400, Берестяная грамота № 179 [Birchbark letter no. 179], Novgorod:… и ·г· бѣлѣ на ꙁамкѣ …- … i ·g· bělě na zamkě …
References
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 740
Further reading
- “ꙁамъке”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2025