ⱅⱑⰾⱁ

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tělo. Further etymology is unclear.

Noun

ⱅⱑⰾⱁ • (tělo) n

  1. body (physical frame of a person or animal)
  2. corpse
  3. (figuratively) the church as the Body of Christ
  4. (figuratively) the bread of the eucharist
  5. stature, height (of a person)
  6. bodiliness, corporeality, human condition or nature
  7. person, hypostasis
  8. (later Church Slavonic) body, object, material thing
  9. image, form, appearance
  10. statue, image, representation of a body
  11. age (of a person)
  12. (by metonymy) generation

References
  • Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “ⱅⱑⰾⱁ”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk
  • Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “ⱅⱑⰾⱁ”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae), Prague: Euroslavica
  • Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26)‎, Helsinki: University of Helsinki
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