пѫде

Old Novgorodian

Alternative forms

• поуде (pude) — late form

Etymology

First attested in c. 1180‒1200. Borrowed from Old Norse pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, from Latin pondō. Cognate with Old East Slavic пѫдъ (pǫdŭ), Russian пуд (pud) and English pound.

Noun

пѫде (pǫde) m

1. pood (an old unit of weight, equal to 16.3804815 kilograms or 36.1127 pounds)

Related terms

Old Novgorodian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)pend-‎ (0 c, 1 e)

Further reading

• Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “пудъ”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 789
• “пѫде”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024