ꙗко

See also: яко and ако

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

ѣко (jěko), ꙗкѡ (jako)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jako.

Conjunction

ꙗко • (jako)

if
that
- 10th c., Codex Marianus, John 11:22:
  нъ ꙇ҅ нꙑнѣ вѣмъ · ѣко егоже колижъдо просиши ꙋ б꙯а дастъ тебѣ б꙯ъ ·
  nhŭ i nyně věmŭ · jěko egože koližŭdo prosiši u b:a dastŭ tebě b:ŭ ·
  But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.
because, for
- Ретъко, editor (1025±50?), Codex Suprasliensis‎^[1] (in Old Church Slavonic), page (leaf) 224.5, line 4:
  ꙁемь҆ꙗ о̑убоꙗ҅ сꙙ и҅ о̑умльча · ꙗ҅ко богъ пльтиѭ̑ о̑усь҆пе ·
  zemĭja ȏubojha shę i ȏumlĭča · jhako bogŭ plĭtijǫ̑ ȏusĭpe ·
  The earth grew frightened and fell silent, for God fell asleep in the flesh.

Adverb

ꙗко • (jako)

how

Related terms

ꙗкоже (jakože)

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jako. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic ꙗко (jako).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjɑkɔ/→/ˈjakɔ/→/ˈjakɔ/

(ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈjɑkɔ/
(ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈjakɔ/
(ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈjakɔ/

Hyphenation: ꙗ‧ко

Adverb

ꙗко (jako)

how?
how, like
- 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[2], page 4:
  и ꙗко же плѣньникомъ оумъ стоить оу родитель своихъ.
  i jako že plěnĭnikomŭ umŭ stoitĭ u roditelĭ svoixŭ.
  And just like to prisoners the thought is directed to their own parents.

Descendants

Old Ruthenian: ꙗкъ (jak), ꙗко (jako)
- Belarusian: як (jak)
- Carpathian Rusyn: як (jak), яко (jako)
- Ukrainian: як (jak)
Russian: (archaic) яко (jako)

References

Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙗко”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[3] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1652