Old Church Slavonic

Speech parts

1. Old Church Slavonic - Noun

2. Old Church Slavonic - Proper noun

Meaning

the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Old Bulgarian Old Church Slavic Church Slavic slavonic Proto-Slavic Old Slavonic Old Slavic Old Macedonian Old East Slavonic old church slavonic language

Hypernyms

slavic slavonic Slavic language Slavonic language

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

In some Slavic languages the word Tuesday originated from Old Church Slavonic word въторъ meaning "the second". Source: Internet

It is possibly related to Old Church Slavonic khomestoru, which is either a blend of the root of Russian хомяк (khomyak) "hamster" and a Baltic word (cf. Source: Internet

Nevertheless, the use of Latin in Orthodox eastern Europe did not reach high levels due to their strong cultural links to the cultural heritage of Ancient Greece and Byzantium, as well as Greek and Old Church Slavonic languages. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

old chief Old Chinese Old Church Slavic old church slavonic language old citizen Old City