оунии
Old Church Slavonic
Alternative forms
- уне (une)
- ꙋне (une)
- оуне (une)
- оунѣе (uněe)
- оуньи (unĭj)
- оуньши (unĭši)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *uňьjь.
Adjective
оун҄ии • (unʹij)
- better, best
- from the Story of Ahikar:
- ꙋне ты ѥ огьнемь горетии тресавицею нежели жити сь ꙁлою женою.
- une ty je ogĭnemĭ goretij tresaviceju neželi žiti sĭ zloju ženoju.
- It is better to be shivering from being set on fire, than to be living together with a wicked woman.
- Excerpt from the Story of Boris and Gleb, line 37:
- Уне бы ми съ тобою умрети, неже уединену и усирену отъ тебе въ семь житꙇи пожити.
- It would have been preferable for me to die with you, and not to live out this life bereft of you and orphaned.
- from the Story of Ahikar:
References
- Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “оунии”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 740
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 509
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