глазъ

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic глазъ (glazŭ), from Proto-Slavic *glȃzъ (“ball; eye”). Cognate with Russian глаз (glaz), Old Polish głaz and Old Czech hlaz.

Noun

глазъ • (hlaz) m inan

1. (dialectal) eye

   Synonym: око (oko)

   потитики не знали, а правдою в ротъ, яко солію въ глаза нидывали ― potitiki ne znali, a pravdoju v rot, jako soliju v hlaza nidyvali ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• Глазъ (Hlaz) (Old Belarusian surname)

Descendants

• Belarusian: глаз (hlaz, “eye”) (dialectal)

Further reading

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Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1985), “глазъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 6 (выостреный – глядати), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 291