Жирославе
Old Novgorodian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *Žiroslàvъ. First attested in c. 1160‒1180. By surface analysis, жире (žire) + -о- (-o-) + -слава (-slava) + -е (-je).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Жи‧ро‧сла‧ве
Proper noun
Жирославе • (Žiroslave) m[1]
- a male given name
- c. 1160‒1180, Schaeken, Jos (2019), Voices on Birchbark (SSGL; 43)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, transl., Берестяная грамота № 657 [Birchbark letter no. 657][3], Novgorod:
- … сь ст҃ее дьлѧ варъвре вьверице твое въ городь ѿ домацка а у жирослава суть …
- … sĭ st:jeje dĭlę varŭvre vĭvericʹje tvoje vŭ gorodĭ otŭ domacʹka a u žiroslava sutĭ …
- Here, your money, [designated] for the [nunnery] of St. Barbara from Domachko, is in town; and it [the money] is at Zhiroslav’s.
References
- ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004), Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect][1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 739
Further reading
- “Жирославъ”, in “Birchbark Letters Corpus”, in Russian National Corpus, https://ruscorpora.ru, 2003–2025