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 (jaice) n

  1. egg (of a bird)

Descendants

Further reading

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙗице”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (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 • (jaiće) n[1]

  2. egg
    • c. 1360‒1380, Берестяная грамота № 254 [Birchbark letter no. 254]‎, Novgorod:
      … [ст]а ѧече а е[си](ѳ)[у] …
      … a jęjeće a je(θ) …
      … a hundred eggs and Joseph …

Declension

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References

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

Further reading

  • “ꙗице”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2025
  • Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “№ 254”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎ (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 583
    • Artsikhovsky, A. V., Borkovsky, V. I., editor (1963), “№ 254”, in Новгородские грамоты на бересте (1956–1957 гг.) [Novgorod letters on birchbark: 1956–1957] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House, page 81
    • “ѧече (letter no. 254), c. 1360‒1380”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus]‎ (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2025
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