Роусь
See also: Русь
Old Novgorodian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Proto-Finnic *roocci. First attested in c. 1160‒1180.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: Роу‧сь
Proper noun
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect][1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 793
Further reading
[edit]- “Роусь”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024