кудесникъ
Old East Slavic edit
Alternative forms edit
- кудешьникъ (kudešĭnikŭ)
Etymology edit
Archaic s-stem noun, continuing Proto-Balto-Slavic *kjáudas, from Proto-Indo-European *kéwdos. A possible cognate is Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos).
Pronunciation edit
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kuˈdɛsnikʊ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kuˈdʲɛsnʲikʊ/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /kuˈdʲɛsnʲik/
Noun edit
кудесникъ (kudesnikŭ) m
- wizard, mage
- from the Hypatian Codex:
- въпрошалъ волъхвовъ кудесникъ
- vŭprošalŭ volŭxvovŭ kudesnikŭ
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- from the Hypatian Codex:
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Russian: куде́сник (kudésnik)
References edit
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “кудесникъ”, 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 1357