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: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 775
Further reading
[edit]- “Оꙗть”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024