ноугьнѣ

Old Novgorodian

Etymology

First attested in c. 1160‒1180. Possibly inherited from Proto-Slavic *nuďьně, from *nùďa (“need, necessity”) + *ně (reinforcing particle, compare *nyně) with Old Pskovian reflex *ď > early g > late z. By surface analysis, *ноуга (*nuga) +‎ *нѣ (*ně). A typical Old Novgorodian would be expected as *ноужьнѣ (*nužĭně). Cognate with Old East Slavic нужьнѣ (nužĭně), Old Ruthenian нужнѣ (nužně), Old Church Slavonic ноуждьнѣ (nuždĭně).

Adverb

ноугьнѣ • (nugĭně)

1. (Old Pskovian) strongly, very, extremely
   • c. 1160‒1180, Jos Schaeken, transl., Берестяная грамота № 717 [Birchbark letter no. 717]‎^[1], Novgorod:

     … присли привитъкоу и повои ци ти многи повои а присли и до ⁞е҃⁞ти повои а ѧ ноугене пецалоусѧ цереницами постригати …

     Send the habit and wimples. If (you have) a lot of wimples, send up to five wimples. I am extremely busy with the nuns; they have to be tonsured soon.

Related terms

Old Novgorodian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *neh₂w-‎ (0 c, 1 e)

Further reading

• Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[2] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 767
• “ноугьнѣ”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024