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свиньꙗ

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Old Novgorodian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svinьjà, ultimately from *svinъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *swīˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-iHnos, from *suH- (pig, hog, swine). First attested in c. 1120‒1140. Cognate with Old East Slavic свиньꙗ (svinĭja), Old Ruthenian свинꙗ́ (svinjá), Old Church Slavonic свиниꙗ (svinija), Old Polish świnia.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: сви‧нь‧ꙗ

Noun

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свиньꙗ (svinĭjaf[1]

  1. pig, swine

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 795

Further reading

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