главизна

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Old East Slavic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic главизна (glavizna), equivalent to глава (glava, chapter) +‎ -изна (-izna).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ɡlɑˈʋiznɑ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ɡlaˈʋʲizna/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ɡlaˈʋʲizna/
  • Hyphenation: гла‧ви‧зна

Noun[edit]

главизна (glaviznaf

  1. chapter
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], page 2:
      ѥгда чьтеши книгꙑ· не тъштисѧ бърꙁо иштисти до дроугыꙗ главиꙁнꙑ·
      jegda čĭteši knigy· ne tŭštisę bŭrzo ištisti do drugyja glavizny·
      when you read books, don't strive to quickly read on to the following chapter.

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Old Ruthenian: глави́зна (hlavízna)

References[edit]

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “главизна”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 514