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Сꙗсь

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Old Novgorodian

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Etymology

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Literally, “mosquito (river)”. From Finnic languages, such as Livvi siäksi, Karelian šiäkši, Veps säsk, cf. Ludian siäsk, Ingrian sääski, ultimately from Proto-Finnic *säski (“mosquito”). First attested in c. 1200‒1220.

Proper noun

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Сꙗсь • (Sjasĭ) f[1]

  1. Syas (a river in the Novgorod Republic, Kievan Rus)

Descendants

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  • → Russian: Сясь (Sjasʹ)

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 805

Further reading

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