аѥсова

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Old Novgorodian

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Birchbark letter no. St. R. 35 (c. 1140‒1160)

Etymology

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By surface analysis, *аѥ (*aje) +‎ *совати (*sovati) +‎ (-a), literally testicle-shover. Derived from Proto-Slavic *aje (egg) with preservation of the original initial *a- without iotation + *sovati (to shove).[1] First attested in c. 1140‒1160.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: аѥ‧со‧ва

Noun

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аѥсова (ajesovam[2]

  1. (vulgar, hapax) wanker; dickhead, fucker, horndog (an insult)
    • c. 1140‒1160, Берестяная грамота № Ст. Р. 35 [Birchbark letter no. St. R. 35]‎[2], Staraya Russa:
      … ѧкове брате еби лежѧ ебехото аесово
      … jękove brate ebi ležę ebexoto ajesovo
      … Yakov, brother, fuck lying down, you lustful testicle-shover.
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References

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  1. ^ Anikin, A. E. (2007) “аєсова”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 106
  2. ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 710

Further reading

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