целовѣке
Old Novgorodian
Alternative forms
- цоловѣке (cʹolověke)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ. First attested in c. 1260‒1280.
Cognate with Old East Slavic человѣкъ (čelověkŭ), Old Church Slavonic чловѣкъ (člověkŭ), Old Polish człowiek.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: це‧ло‧вѣ‧ке
Noun
целовѣке • (cʹjelověke) m[1]
- man, human
- Synonym: мѫжь (mǫžĭ)
- c. 1280‒1300, Kovalev, Roman K., transl., Берестяная грамота № 582 [Birchbark letter no. 582][2], Novgorod:
- цето еси прислале дова целовека те побегли а коне не ведаю г[д]ѣ поимавоши а тимонѧ меретве
- cʹjeto jesi prislale dova cʹjeloveka te pobegli a kone ne vedaju g[d]jě poimavoši a timonę meretve
- These two men, whom thou hast sent, fled, and I don't know where they've gotten horses. And Timonya is dead.
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | целовѣке cʹjelověke |
целовѣка cʹjelověka |
целовѣки cʹjelověki |
| genitive | целовѣка cʹjelověka |
целовѣкоу cʹjelověku |
целовѣкъ cʹjelověkŭ |
| dative | целовѣкоу cʹjelověku |
целовѣкома cʹjelověkoma |
целовѣкомъ cʹjelověkomŭ |
| accusative | целовѣкъ cʹjelověkŭ |
целовѣка cʹjelověka |
целовѣкѣ cʹjelověkě |
| instrumental | целовѣкъмь cʹjelověkŭmĭ |
целовѣкома cʹjelověkoma |
целовѣкꙑ cʹjelověky |
| locative | целовѣкѣ cʹjelověkě |
целовѣкоу cʹjelověku |
целовѣкѣхъ cʹjelověkěxŭ |
| vocative | целовѣке cʹjelověke |
целовѣка cʹjelověka |
целовѣкѣ cʹjelověkě |
Related terms
nouns
- целꙗдь f (cʹjeljadĭ, “peasant”)
References
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004), Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect][1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 816
Further reading
- “человѣкъ”, in “Birchbark Letters Corpus”, in Russian National Corpus, https://ruscorpora.ru, 2003–2026