торпицꙗ

Old Novgorodian

By surface analysis, *торпа (*torpa) +‎ -ицꙗ (-ićja).^[1] Borrowed from Finnic languages, such as Livvi torpu, Karelian torppa, torppu (“trout”), Ludian torp (“brown trout”), Veps torp (“trout”), where also Finnish torppu (“trout”), further origins unclear.^[2]^[3] First attested in c. 1420‒1430. Compare Russian то́рпица (tórpica), dialectal то́рпа (tórpa), Middle Russian торпа (torpa), first attested only in 1563.

торпицꙗ • (torpićja) f^[4]

→ Middle Russian: *торпица (*torpica), торпа (torpa)
- Russian: то́рпица (tórpica); то́рпа (tórpa) (dialectal)

^ Gippius, A. A. (2023) “Берестяные грамоты из раскопок 2022 г. в Великом Новгороде и Старой Руссе”, in Вопросы языкознания [Topics in the Study of Language]‎^[1] (in Russian), number 5, Moscow: Nauka, →ISSN, page 12
^ Myznikov, S. A. (2019) “то́рпа”, in Русский диалектный этимологический словарь. Лексика контактных регионов [Etymological Dictionary of Russian Dialects. Vocabulary of Contact Regions]‎^[2] (in Russian), Moscow, Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 798
^ Vasmer, Max (1973) “то́рпа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 4 (Т – Ящур), Moscow: Progress, page 87
^ Gippius, A. A. (actor) (November 8, 2022), “№ 1148” (26:45 from the start), in Берестяные грамоты из раскопок 2022 г. (in Russian), Institute for Slavic Studies RAS