See also: сиг and сіг

Old Novgorodian edit

 
сиге

Etymology edit

First attested in c. 1140‒1160. Borrowed from Finnic language, probably from Livvi siigu (compare Karelian siiga, Veps sīg, Ludian siig, Estonian siig, Finnish siika), ultimately from Proto-Finnic *siika; further origins unclear. Cognate with Latvian sīga, Lithuanian sykis, Old Norse síkr, Norwegian Bokmål sik, Swedish sik, Old Danish sig.

Middle Russian сигъ (sig), whence Russian сиг (sig), was first attested only in 1496.[1] Derivative сиговый (sigovyj, related to whitefish) attested since 1500,[2] сиговина (sigovina, whitefish meat) and сиговица (sigovica, fishing tackle) are attested since 1563.[3][4][5] It seems that in Middle Russian the word was borrowed from Old Novgorodian.[6]

Noun edit

сиге (sigem[7]

  1. whitefish (Coregonus)
    • c. 1140‒1160, Грамота № 831[8] [Birchbark letter no. 831], Novgorod:
      … сире а то гривьною крилъ есмь и дьсѧть сигово и полъть во дьсѧть коуно
      … sire a to grivĭnoju krilŭ esmĭ i dĭsętĭ sigovo i polŭtĭ vo dĭsętĭ kuno
      … cheeses ‒ I bought this for a hryvnia, and ten whitefish and half a carcass for ten kuns
    • c. 1220‒1240, Грамота № 147[9] [Birchbark letter no. 147], Novgorod:
      пу нь пожали господине про сигꙑ ѣще сигово нету а поцта тобь буде гъже
      pu nĭ požali gospodine pro sigy ěšče sigovo netu a pocta tobĭ bude gŭže
      Do not be angry, sir, because of the whitefishes ‒ there are no whitefishes yet. And you will be well respected.
    • c. 1320‒1340, Грамота № 144[10] [Birchbark letter no. 144], Novgorod:
      възми ꙋ тимоѳѣѧ ·н҃· сиговъ ѡ ·г҃· рꙋблѧ а роко на роство
      vŭzmi u timoθěę ·n:· sigovŭ o ·g:· rublę a roko na rostvo
      Take 50 whitefish from Timofey for about 3 rubles. And the payment deadline is Christmas
    • c. 1360‒1380, Грамота № 280[11] [Birchbark letter no. 280], Novgorod:
      … ·г҃· таимени ·в҃· просоле и ·е҃· сигово ·е҃· таимени ѧколихо
      … ·g:· taimeni ·v:· prosole i ·e:· sigovo ·e:· taimeni ękolixo
      … 3 taimen, 2 of them lightly salted, and 5 whitefish and 5 Yakovlev taimen

Descendants edit

  • Middle Russian: сигъ (sig)

References edit

  1. ^ Bogatova, G. A., editor (2000), “сигъ”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎[1] (in Russian), numbers 24 (се – скорый), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 121
  2. ^ Bogatova, G. A., editor (2000), “сиговый”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎[2] (in Russian), numbers 24 (се – скорый), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 122
  3. ^ Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “сиговина”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[3] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 344
  4. ^ Bogatova, G. A., editor (2000), “сиговина”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎[4] (in Russian), numbers 24 (се – скорый), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 122
  5. ^ Bogatova, G. A., editor (2000), “сиговица”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎[5] (in Russian), numbers 24 (се – скорый), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 122
  6. ^ Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “сиг”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 160
  7. ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “сигъ”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎[6] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 798
  8. ^ сигово (letter no. 831), c. 1140‒1160”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024
  9. ^ сигꙑ; сигово (letter no. 147), c. 1220‒1240”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024
  10. ^ сиговъ (letter no. 144), c. 1320‒1340”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024
  11. ^ сигово (letter no. 280), c. 1360‒1380”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024

Further reading edit

Russian edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

сиге́ (sigém anim

  1. prepositional singular of сиг (sig)