венцэй
Belarusian
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editве́нцэй • (vjéncej) (dialectal, north-western)
- more often
- Synonym: (standard term) часце́й (čascjéj)
- more; (in the negative) else
- Synonym: (standard term) больш (bolʹš)
- Ве́нцэй нічо́га не было́ там.
- Vjéncej ničóha nje byló tam.
- Nothing else was there.
- 1866, Петръ Гильтебрандтъ, Игнатій Котовичъ, compilers, Сборникъ памятниковъ народнаго творчества въ Сѣверо-Западномъ краѣ, Вильна: Виленскій Вѣстникъ, page 252:
- Не задайце жалю венцей матули моей!
- Nje zadajcje žalju vjencjej matuli mójej!
- Don't make my mother sad any more!
References
edit- https://bydialects.org/dicts/slounik-bielaruskich-havorak-paunocna-zachodniaj-bielarusi-i-jaje-pahranicca-1-r/298
- Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “венцей”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 3 (вариво – вкупе), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 108