аѥсова

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Old Novgorodian

Birchbark letter no. St. R. 35 (c. 1140‒1160)

Etymology

From *аѥ (*aje, “egg; testicle”) +‎ совати (sovati, “to shove”) +‎ -а (-a), literally “testicle-shover”.^[1]

Example of keeping the original initial *a- without iotation from Proto-Slavic *aje (“egg”) in a full-valued word.

Noun

аѥсова (ajesova) m

(vulgar, hapax) wanker; dickhead, fucker, horndog (an insult)
- c. 1140‒1160, Берестяная грамота № Ст. Р. 35 [Birchbark letter no. St. R. 35]‎^[1], Staraya Russa:
  … ѧкове брате еби лежѧ ебехото аесово
  … ękove brate ebi ležę ebexoto ajesovo
  … Yakov, brother, fuck lying down, you lustful ball-shover.

Declension

vocative singular: аѥсово (ajesovo)

References

^ Anikin, A. E. (2007) “аєсова”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 106

Further reading

“аѥсова”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024
Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “аѥсова”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[2] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 710
“аесово (letter no. St. R. 35), c. 1140‒1160”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024

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