Old East Slavic

Proper noun

Meaning

Old East Slavic

(historical) A Slavic language used from the 10th to the 14th centuries by East Slavs in the state of Kievan Rus and its successors. The ancestor of Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn and Ukrainian.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

Old Russian Rusian Old East Slavonic

Examples

At the same time, most legal documents throughout Rus' were written in a purely Old East Slavic language (supposed to be based on the Kiev dialect of that epoch). Source: Internet

Hilarion's discourse on Yaroslav and his father Vladimir is frequently cited as the first work of Old East Slavic literature. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

old east nordic Old East Norse old east scandinavian Old East Slavonic Old Edlington Old Egyptian