ꙗице
See also: аице
Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ājьcè, diminutive of *ȃje (“egg”), ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).
Noun
ꙗице (jaice) n
- egg (of a bird)
Descendants
- Belarusian: яйцо́ (jajcó)
- Old Ruthenian: ꙗйце́ (jajcé)
- Rusyn: я́йце (jájce)
- Ukrainian: яйце́ (jajcé)
- Russian: яйцо́ (jajcó)
Further reading
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “ꙗице”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1651