ⱃⰰⰱⰵ
Old Novgorodian edit
Alternative forms edit
- Cyrillic: рабе (rabe)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic рабъ (rabŭ).
Noun edit
ⱃⰰⰱⰵ (rabe) m
- servant, slave
- c. 1045, Iosif, graffito in St. Sophia cathedral:
- ⰳ҃ⰺ[ⱂⱁⰿⱁⰸⰺ] / ⱃⰰⰱ[ⱆ] / ⰺⱁⱄⰺ[ⱇⱆ]
- g:i[pomozi] / rab[u] / iosi[fu]
- Lord help / his servant / Iosif
- c. 1045, Iosif, graffito in St. Sophia cathedral:
References edit
- Савва Михайлович (2012), “22 Древнерусских глаголических надписи-граффити XI–XII веков из Новгорода” in Slovo, vol. 62, pp. 63-99.