ꙗйце

Old Ruthenian

ꙗйце курѧчоє (sense 1)

Alternative forms

Etymology

PIE word
*h₂ōwyóm

Inherited from Old East Slavic ꙗице (jaice), from Proto-Slavic *ajьce, from *ȃje, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Cognate with Russian яйцо́ (jajcó), Old Novgorodian ꙗиче (jaiče).

Noun

ꙗйце • (jajce) n inan

  1. egg
  2. testicle
adjectives

Descendants

  • Belarusian: яйцо́ (jajcó)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: я́йце (jájce)
  • Ukrainian: яйце́ (jajcé)

Further reading

  • Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “*яице”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 579
  • Bulyka, A. M., editor (2017), “яйцо, ейцо, яйце”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 37 (чорное – ящыкъ), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 308
  • Dezső, László (1996) “яйце”, in Деловая письменность русинов в XVII–XVIII вв. [Rusyn Business Writing in the 17ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ c.], Nyíregyháza: Bessenyei György Tanárképző Főiskola; Ukrán és Ruszin Filológiai Tanszék, page 184
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