Роусь

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Old Novgorodian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Proto-Finnic *roocci. First attested in c. 1160‒1180.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Роу‧сь

Proper noun

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Роусь (Rusĭf[1]

  1. Rus
    • c. 1160‒1180, Kovalev, Roman K., transl., Берестяная грамота № 105 [Birchbark letter no. 105]‎[2], Novgorod:
      + ѿ сьмъка къ коулотъкѣ оже то ѥси казале несъдѣ вѣверичь тихъ дѣлѧ коли то еси приходиле въ роус[ь] съ лазъ(в)къмъ тъгъдъ възѧле оу мене лазъвке переѧслав[ь]лѣ
      + otŭ sĭmŭka kŭ kulotŭkě ože to jesi kazale nesŭdě věverićĭ tixŭ dělę koli to esi prixodile vŭ rus[ĭ] sŭ lazŭ(v)kŭmŭ tŭgŭdŭ vŭzęle u mene lazŭvke perejęslav[ĭ]lě
      From Semko to Kulotka. [In regard to] what you said to Nesda about that money ─ when you came to Rus' with Lazovko, then Lazovko took it from me in Pereiaslavl'.

References

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  1. ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 793

Further reading

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  • Роусь”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024