фофоудьꙗ
See also: фофудья
Old Novgorodian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Byzantine Greek *φουφούδιον (*phouphoúdion), compare φουφουδότης (phouphoudótēs). Possibly related to ἐφούδ (ephoúd), ἐφώδ (ephṓd), which is from Biblical Hebrew אֵפוֹד (ʾēp̄ōḏ, “ephod”). First attested in c. 1140‒1160.
Cognate with Old East Slavic фофудиꙗ (fofudija), Russian фофу́дья (fofúdʹja), Ukrainian фофу́дія (fofúdija).
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: фо‧фоу‧дь‧ꙗ
Noun
edit- (hapax) fofudja, a precious oriental gold-woven fabric
- c. 1140‒1160, Roman K. Kovalev, transl., Берестяная грамота № 675 [Birchbark letter no. 675][2], Novgorod:
- … кꙑевѣ : бг҃ъ : мьжи нама послоухо бꙑлъ : фофоудьи бꙑлъ твоихъ :ѳ҃: рьклъ ѧ собѣ …
- … kyjevě : bg:ŭ : mĭži nama posluxo bylŭ : fofudĭi bylŭ tvoixŭ :θ:: rĭklŭ ę sobě …
- In Kiev, God was our witness: of your fofudii, I claimed 9 for myself.
References
edit- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect][1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 813
Further reading
edit- “фофоудьꙗ”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024