поклонъ

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poklonъ.

Noun

поклонъ • (poklonŭ) m

1. bow
2. worship
3. salutation, greeting

Related terms

• поклонити (pokloniti)

Old Novgorodian

Novgorod birch-bark letter № 199

Alternative forms

• поклоно (poklono)
• поколоно (pokolono)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poklonъ.

Noun

поклонъ (poklonŭ) m

1. greetings
   • c. 1265, Novgorod birch-bark letters, document № 199:

     Поклоно ѿ Онѳима ко Данилѣ

     Poklono ote Onθima ko Danilě

     Greetings from Onfim to Danila

Usage notes

поклонъ started being used as a standard greeting in letters c. 1200, quickly replacing the earlier standard покланѧниѥ (poklanęnije). By 1400, поклонъ itself fell out of favor, to be replaced by variants of челомь битьѥ (čelomĭ bitĭje).

References

• “поклонъ (letter no. 481)”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024
• Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “§1.16. Некоторые вопросы текстовой структуры берестяных грамот”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 37