мꙑ

Forms

мꙑ (my)^[1] Genitive and locative насъ, dative намъ or enclitic нꙑ, accusative насъ or нꙑ, instrumental нами.^[2] The Kiev Missal and the Glagolita Clozianus also have нꙑ as nominative.^[3][4]

Etymology

It is inherited from Proto-Slavic *my (“we”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes.^[4][1] The same pronoun is Russian мы (my), Ukrainian ми (my), Serbo-Croatian mi, Slovene mi, Czech my, Slovak my, Polish my and Upper Sorbian my.^[4][5] It is related to Lithuanian mes, Latvian mēs, Old Prussian mes and Old Armenian մեք (mekʻ);^[4][5][6][1] Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Indo-European *més, probably shortened from *n̥smés.^[1]

Other Indo-European languages have forms with w- here, such as Avestan vaēm, Old High German wir and Hittite wēš;^[5] Derksen and Guyer, as Vasmer reports, take the m- from the verbal ending of the first person plural.^[4][5] The vowel -ꙑ was taken over from вꙑ (“you”), and the enclitic accusative (see Forms) may also have played a part.^[4][5][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

In the Gospels it renders Ancient Greek ἡμεῖς (hēmeîs), often with emphasis, as in the Lord's Prayer: ѣко ꙇ мꙑ отъпоуштаемъ дльжьникомъ нашимъ “as we too forgive our debtors” (Mt 6, 12, Zogr Mar As Sav Ostr).^[3] The SNSP counts more than 1,300 examples of the pronoun with its oblique cases.^[2]

Timeline

• End of the 9th – beginning of the 10th century – a South Slavic liturgical text in SlaVaComp (Lex Eccl) has мꙑ for ἡμεῖς.^[7]
• 14th century – a Middle Bulgarian liturgical translation of the Athos–Tărnovo school (Syn Tr) uses it for ἡμεῖς.^[7]

Meanings

Pronoun

1. we; for ἡμεῖς.^[3][2][1]

Related words

• вꙑ

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Slovník nejstarších staroslověnských památek (digital ed., Gorazd, Slovanský ústav AV ČR, gorazd.org); cf. Cejtlin, R. M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, É. (eds.) (1994), Staroslavjanskij slovar' (po rukopisjam X–XI vekov), Moskva: Russkij jazyk
3. ^ a b c Kurz, Josef; Hauptová, Zoe (eds.) (1958–1997), Slovník jazyka staroslověnského / Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae, 4 vols. + supplements, Praha: Academia; digital ed. gorazd.org
4. ^ a b c d e f Derksen, Rick (2008), Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 4, Leiden / Boston: Brill, p. 336
5. ^ a b c d e Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), Ètimologičeskij slovar' russkogo jazyka, transl. and suppl. by O. N. Trubačev, 4 vols., Moskva: Progress, p. 3, 23
6. ^ a b Sadnik, Linda; Aitzetmüller, Rudolf (1955), Handwörterbuch zu den altkirchenslavischen Texten, Heidelberg: Winter / 's-Gravenhage: Mouton, p. 273
7. ^ a b SlaVaComp Metaglossar Griechisch–Kirchenslavisch, Universität Freiburg, slavistik-portal.de