ꙗице

See also: аице

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ājьcè, diminutive of *ȃje (“egg”), ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

Noun

ꙗице (jaice) n

1. egg (of a bird)

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: ꙗйце (jajce), ꙗйцо (jajco), єйцо (jejco)
  • Belarusian: яйцо́ (jajcó)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: я́йце (jájce)
  • Ukrainian: яйце́ (jajcé)
• Russian: яйцо́ (jajcó)

Further reading

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙗице”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1651