ꙗсень

Old Ruthenian

ꙗ́сень

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic *ꙗ́сьнь (*jásĭnĭ), from Proto-Slavic *àsenь, *àsenъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀsenas, from Proto-Indo-European *Hh₃es-(e)nos, from *Heh₃s-. Cognate with Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Old Polish jasień.

Noun

ꙗсень • (jasenʹ) m inan

1. ash tree

   олсомъ у поточыну; у ꙗсень; отъ ꙗсенѧ молотомъ жывою водою, у дубе рубежы ― olsom u potočynu; u jasenʹ; ot jasenja molotom žyvoju vodoju, u dube rubežy ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

Old Ruthenian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *Heh₃s- (0 c, 4 e)

Descendants

• Belarusian: я́сень (jásjenʹ)
• Carpathian Rusyn: я́сїнь (jásjinʹ)
• Ukrainian: я́сень (jásenʹ); я́сінь (jásinʹ) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2017), “ясень”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 37 (чорное – ящыкъ), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 385