ꙗице

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

ꙗице (jaice) n

1. egg (of a bird)

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

• 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]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1651

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ajьce, from *ȃje, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). First attested in c. 1360‒1380. Cognate with Old East Slavic ꙗице (jaice), Old Ruthenian ꙗйце (jajce), Old Church Slavonic аице (aice), Old Polish jajce.

ꙗице • (jaiće) n^[1]

2. egg
   • c. 1360‒1380, Берестяная грамота № 254 [Birchbark letter no. 254]‎^[3], Novgorod:

     … [ст]а ѧече а е[си](ѳ)[у] …

     … [st]a jęjeće a je[si](θ)[u] …

     … a hundred eggs and Joseph …

• genitive plural: ꙗѥце (jajeće)

• “ꙗице”, in “Birchbark Letters Corpus”, in Russian National Corpus, https://ruscorpora.ru, 2003–2025
• Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “№ 254”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[4] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 583
  • Artsikhovsky, A. V., Borkovsky, V. I., editor (1963), “№ 254”, in Новгородские грамоты на бересте (1956–1957 гг.) [Novgorod letters on birchbark: 1956–1957] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House, page 81
  • “ѧече (letter no. 254), c. 1360‒1380”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus]‎^[5][6] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2025