аѥсова

Old Novgorodian

Etymology

By surface analysis, *аѥ (*aje, “egg”) +‎ *сов- (*sov-, “to shove”) +‎ -а (-a, “-er”), literally “egg-shover”, apparently intended as "testicle-thruster". Derived from Proto-Slavic *aje (“egg”) with preservation of the original initial *a- without iotation + *sovati (“to shove”)[1] + *-a m (agent-noun suffix). First attested in c. 1140‒1160.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: аѥ‧со‧ва

Noun

аѥсова • (ajesova) m[2]

  1. (vulgar, hapax legomenon) wanker; dickhead, fucker, horndog (an insult)
    • c. 1140‒1160, Берестяная грамота № Ст. Р. 35 [Birchbark letter no. St. R. 35]‎[2], Staraya Russa:
      … ѧкове брате еби лежѧ ебехото аесово
      … jękove brate jebi ležę jebexoto ajesovo
      … Yakov, brother, fuck lying down, you lustful testicle-shover.
nouns

References

  1. ^ Anikin, A. E. (2007), “аєсова”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 106
  2. ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004), Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 710

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