Оꙗть
Old Novgorodian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “brook, stream, creek”. From Finnic languages, such as Veps oja, ojan, ojid, cf. Karelian oja, ultimately from Proto-Finnic *oja (“ditch; brook, stream”). First attested in c. 1360‒1380.
Proper noun
[edit]- Oyat (a river in the Novgorod Republic, Kievan Rus)
Descendants
[edit]- → Russian: Оя́ть (Ojátʹ)
References
[edit]- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect][1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 775
Further reading
[edit]- “Оꙗть”, in “Корпус берестяных грамот [Birchbark Letters Corpus]”, in Национальный корпус русского языка [Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru, 2003–2025