Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

The main deviations:

• the оу digraph or simply у: роусьскыи, рꙋсьскыи, русьскыи
• double or single с: русьскыи, русскыи, руськыи
• the absence or presence of the yer: русьскыи, русскыи, рускыи, руськыи
• the ы or и: русьскыи, русьскии.

Adjective

русьскъ ‎(rusĭskŭ)

1. Rusian (from or related to Kievan Rus)

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• Русьскаꙗ землꙗ ‎(Rusĭskaja zemlja, “Rus, lit.: land of the Rus”)
• русьскыи человѣкъ ‎(rusĭskyi čelověkŭ, “a man of Rus; also a follower of the Eastern Orthodox Church”)
• русьскыи люди ‎(rusĭskyi ljudi, “people of Rus”)
• русьскыи народъ ‎(rusĭskyi narodŭ, “nation of the Rus”)

Descendants

• Belarusian: ру́скі ‎(rúski)
• Russian: ру́сский ‎(rússkij)
• Rusyn: ру́ськый ‎(rúsʹkŷj)
• Ukrainian: ру́ський ‎(rúsʹkyj)