Old East Slavic edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈknʲiʑɪnʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈknʲiʑɪnʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈknʲiʑɛn/
  • Hyphenation: кни‧жь‧нъ

Adjective edit

книжьнъ (knižĭnŭ)

  1. Alternative form of кънижьнъ (kŭnižĭnŭ)
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], page 1:
      Добро есть, братиѥ, почѥтаньѥ книжьноѥ։ паче вьсѧкомоу хрьстьꙗноу·
      Dobro estĭ, bratije, počjetanĭje knižĭnoje։ pače vĭsękomu xrĭstĭjanu·
      The reading of books is good, brothers: more so for any Christian.

Declension edit

References edit

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “кънижьнꙑи”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1396