Church Slavonic

Proper noun

Meaning

Church Slavonic

A liturgical language of various Slavic church traditions, with dialectal basis of Old Church Slavonic mixed with vernacular lexical and phonological developments.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

slavonic Church Slavic

Examples

As the translations prepared by them were copied by speakers of other dialects, the hybrid literary language Old Church Slavonic was created. Source: Internet

Cognates outside of Germanic are Avestan yārǝ "year", Greek ὥρα main "year, season, period of time" (whence " hour "), Old Church Slavonic jarŭ and Latin hornus "of this year". Source: Internet

Cyrillic and Glagolitic were used for the Church Slavonic language, especially the Old Church Slavonic variant. Source: Internet

Due to heavy borrowings from Polish, German, Czech and Latin, early modern vernacular Ukrainian (prosta mova, "simple speech") had more lexical similarity with West Slavic languages than with Russian or Church Slavonic. Source: Internet

Examples: Greek: Με συγχωρείτε· πού είναι ο σταθμός; (Excuse me; where is the station?) Church Slavonic: гдѣ єсть рождeйсѧ царь їудeйскій; (Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? Source: Internet

He also played an important role in translating the Philokalia from Church Slavonic into Russian. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Church Slavic Church Slavicism Church Slavism Church Slavonicism church song Church Stretton