[gothic-l] boLyar

[gazariah]

Greetings!

I have been doing some research on this question. It seems the
earliest attestation of 'boljarin' in Slavic is found in the Codex
Suprasliensis. Here's a note:

>Codex Suprasliensis, from the 11th cent. This consists of 285 folia
>giving a menology for the month of March, that is, a collection of
>readings ecclesiastical festivals of March. There are twenty-four
>saints' lives and legends, twenty-three homilies, and one prayer.

This manuscript is written in Old Church Slavonic, a language known
only from books. OCS is close to the forms reconstructed for Old
Slavic, but it has Bulgarian traits as far as such can be
distinguished at such an early stage. Older scholars called the
language Old Bulgarian. (So the Turkic language is better called
Danube Bulgarian.)

The word 'boljarin' occurs several times: it is not a misreading or a
fluke. The texts collected in Suprasliensis are translations from
Greek, so we can be sure about the meaning of the word.

In Russian, 'boljarin' with /l/ appears only in church texts or when
the liturgical style is being imitated. The Russian /bojarin/ appears
to have been considered a later, colloquial version of this word.

Just some facts to be fitted into the picture.

Regards,
Gazariah


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