лендоме

Old Novgorodian

Alternative forms

лендома f (lendoma)

Etymology

First attested in c. 1380‒1400 as лендомъ (lendomŭ, gen. pl.). Borrowed from Finnic languages,^[1] such as Veps verb stem lenda- of infinitive leta (“to raise; to withstand (weight); to fly”), cf. Estonian lendama, Võro lindama (“to fly”), ultimately from Proto-Finnic *lentädäk (“to fly; to raise?”), further origins unclear.^[2]

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ле‧ндо‧ме

Noun

лендоме • (lendome) m^[3]

(hapax legomenon) boatful of fish (a sufficiently large measure of the volume or weight of fish to correspond to the load lifted by one boat)
- c. 1380‒1400, Берестяная грамота № 248/249 [Birchbark letter no. 248/249]‎^[3], Novgorod:
  … · на тꙑх жь · коневꙑхъ водахъ · оу мундуѧ · оу вармина · сн҃а · взѧлѣ ·і҃· лендомъ · рꙑбъ · …
  … · na tyx žĭ · konevyxŭ vodaxŭ · u munduję · u varmina · sn:a · vzęlě 10 lendomŭ · rybŭ · …
  … At the same Konevye Vody, near Munduy, Varmin's son, [they] took 10 boatful of fish …

Declension

Declension of лендоме (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	лендоме lendome	лендома lendoma	лендоми lendomi
genitive	лендома lendoma	лендомоу lendomu	лендомъ lendomŭ
dative	лендомоу lendomu	лендомома lendomoma	лендомомъ lendomomŭ
accusative	лендомъ lendomŭ	лендома lendoma	лендомѣ lendomě
instrumental	лендомъмь lendomŭmĭ	лендомома lendomoma	лендомꙑ lendomy
locative	лендомѣ lendomě	лендомоу lendomu	лендомѣхъ lendoměxŭ
vocative	лендоме lendome	лендома lendoma	лендомѣ lendomě

References

^ Sitchinava, Dmitri (2020), “Old Novgorod Dialect ”, in Greenberg, Marc L., editor, Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online‎^[1], Brill, →DOI, →ISSN
^ Yanin, V. L., Zaliznyak, A. A., editor (1986), “1. Лендом(а)”, in Новгородские грамоты на бересте (1977–1983 гг.) [Novgorod letters on birchbark: 1977–1983] (in Russian), volume 8, Moscow: Nauka, page 252
^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004), Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[2] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 754