See also: имя, има, імя, and ім'я

Old Church Slavonic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *jьmę.

Noun edit

имѧ (imęn

  1. name

Declension edit

Old East Slavic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *jьmę. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic имѧ (imę) and Old Polish imię.

Pronunciation edit

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈjimɛ̃/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈjimʲa/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈjimʲa/
  • Hyphenation: и‧мѧ

Noun edit

имѧ (imęn

  1. name
  2. (grammar) noun

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Old Ruthenian: имѧ́ (imjá), имꙗ́ (imjá)
  • Russian: и́мя (ímja)

References edit

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “имѧ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1097
  • Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2014) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije. Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ”, in Languages of Slavic Culture[2] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 597