орѫжие

• оружие (oružije), оружиѥ (oružije)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orǫžьje. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic орѫжиѥ (orǫžije).

At some point, an accentuation borrowed from Old Church Slavonic was introduced, whereas the native pronunciation continued to be used colloquially.

• (native)

• (borrowed)

• Hyphenation: о‧рѫ‧жи‧е

орѫжие (orǫžije) n (related adjective оружиинъ)

1. tool
2. weapon
   • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[1], page 4:

     красота воиноу ороужиѥ· и кораблѫ вѣтрила· тако и правьдникоу почитание книжьноѥ·

     krasota voinu oružije· i korablǫ větrila· tako i pravĭdniku počitanije knižĭnoje·

     To a warrior his weapon is a virtue, and to a ship its sails; and in the same way the reading of books to a righteous person.

3. armor
4. chariot

• (tool): орѫдие (orǫdije)

(from the native pronunciation)

• Old Ruthenian: оружьє́ (oružʹjé)
  • Belarusian: ружжо́ (ružžó)
• Russian: ружьё (ružʹjó), (dialectal) оружьё (oružʹjó) (see there for further descendants)

(from the borrowed pronunciation)

• Old Ruthenian: ору́жьє (orúžʹje)
  • Belarusian: ару́жжа (arúžža)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: ору́жіє (orúžije)
  • Ukrainian: ору́жжя (orúžžja)
• Russian: ору́жие (orúžije)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “оружиѥ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 709
• Zaliznyak, Andrey A. (2019) “оружье́”, in Древнерусское ударение: Общие сведения и словарь [Old East Slavic accent: General Information and Dictionary]‎^[3] (in Russian), 2nd, expanded and revised edition, Moscow: Publishing House “YASK”, →DOI, →ISBN, page 253