ꙗице

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See also: аице

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ājьcè, diminutive of *ȃje (egg), ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja (egg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (egg).

Noun

ꙗице (jaicen

  1. egg (of a bird)

Descendants

Further reading

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙗице”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1651

Old Novgorodian

ꙗице

Etymology

PIE word
*h₂ōwyóm

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ajьce, from *ȃje, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (egg). First attested in c. 1360‒1380. Cognate with Old East Slavic ꙗице (jaice), Old Ruthenian ꙗйце (jajce), Old Church Slavonic аице (aice), Old Polish jajce.

Noun

ꙗице (jaićen[1]

  1. egg
    • c. 1360‒1380, Берестяная грамота № 254, Novgorod:
      … [ст]а ѧече а е[си](ѳ)[у] …
      … [st]a jęjeće a e[si](θ)[u] …
      … a hundred eggs and Joseph …

Declension

nouns

References

  1. ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 821

Further reading