ꙗꙁъ

See also: ꙗзъ

Old Novgorodian

Alternative forms

• ꙗсъ (jasŭ), аꙁъ (azŭ)
• ꙗ (ja)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *(j)ãzъ, *jà. First attested in c. 1050‒1075. Cognate with Old East Slavic ꙗзъ (jazŭ), Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ), Old Czech jáz.

Pronoun

ꙗꙁъ • (jazŭ)

1. first-person pronoun; I

Declension

Declension of Old Novgorodian personal pronouns

	singular		dual		plural		reflexive
	1st person	2nd person	1st person	2nd person	1st person	2nd person
nominative	ꙗ, ꙗꙁъ ja, jazŭ	тꙑ ty	?	вꙑ vy	мꙑ my	вꙑ vy
genitive	мене mene	тебе tebe	?	?	насъ nasŭ	васъ vasŭ	себе sebe
dative	мънѣ, ми mŭně, mi	тобѣ, ти tobě, ti	нама nama	вама, ва vama, va	намъ namŭ	вамъ, вꙑ vamŭ, vy	собѣ sobě
accusative	мене, мѧ mene, mę	тебе, тѧ tebe, tę	?	?	насъ, нꙑ nasŭ, ny	васъ, вꙑ vasŭ, vy	себе, сѧ sebe, sę
instrumental	мъноѭ mŭnojǫ	тобоѭ tobojǫ	?	?	нами nami	вами vami	собоѭ sobojǫ
locative	мънѣ mŭně	тобѣ tobě	?	ваю vaju	?	васъ vasŭ	собѣ sobě
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possessive	мои moi	твои tvoi	?	?	нашь našĭ	вашь vašĭ	свои svoi

Further reading

• “ꙗꙁъ”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2025
• Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 820