Old East Slavic

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic калугеръ (kalugerŭ), from Ancient Greek καλόγηρος (kalógēros).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kɑˈluɡɛrʊ//kaˈluɡɛrʊ//kaˈluɡɛːr/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kɑˈluɡɛrʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kaˈluɡɛrʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /kaˈluɡɛːr/

  • Hyphenation: ка‧лу‧ге‧ръ

Noun

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калугеръ (kalugerŭm

  1. monk
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], page 1:
      [Слово] нѣкоѥг[о] [калꙋ]г[е]ра· о чь[тѥнии кн]игъ⁖
      [Slovo] někojeg[o] [kalu]g[e]ra· o čĭ[tjenii kn]igŭ⁖
      The speech of a certain monk on the reading of books.

Declension

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References

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  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “калугеръ”, 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), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1183