ꙗйце
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Old Ruthenian
ꙗйце курѧчоє (sense 1)
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Etymology
| PIE word |
|---|
| *h₂ōwyóm |
Inherited from Old East Slavic ꙗице (jaice), from Proto-Slavic *ajьce, from *ȃje, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Cognate with Russian яйцо́ (jajcó), Old Novgorodian ꙗиче (jaiće).
Noun
ꙗйце • (jajce) n inan
- egg
- c. 1519‒1574, “Списокъ Быховца”, in Полное собраніе русскихъ лѣтописей, Т. XVII: Западнорусскія лѣтописи, С.-Петербургъ: Тип. М. А. Александрова, published 1907, page 499:
- А ja dasť Boh w neho budu na welik den, a pocałuiu ieho krasnym jajcom, czerez szczyt sulicoiu, a z Bożyiu pomoczyiu k horodu ieho Moskwe kopie swoie prystoniu
- [А ꙗ дасть Богъ въ него буду на великъ денъ, а поцалую єго краснымъ ꙗйцомъ, черезъ щытъ сулицою, а зъ Божыю помочыю къ городу єго Москве копє своє прыстоню]
- A ja dastʹ Boh v neho budu na velik den, a pocaluju jeho krasnym jajcom, čerez ščyt sulicoju, a z Božyju pomočyju k horodu jeho Moskve kopje svoje prystonju
- testicle
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Further reading
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “*яице”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 579
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2017), “яйцо, ейцо, яйце”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), numbers 37 (чорное – ящыкъ), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 308
- Dezső, László (1996) “яйце”, in Деловая письменность русинов в XVII–XVIII вв. (in Russian), Nyíregyháza: Bessenyei György Tanárképző Főiskola; Ukrán és Ruszin Filológiai Tanszék, page 184