таинъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tajьnъ.

Adjective

таинъ (tainŭ)

  1. secret

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: та́йный (tájnyj)
    • Belarusian: тайны (tajny)
    • Ukrainian: тайний (tajnyj)
  • Russian: та́йный (tájnyj)

Further reading

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “таинꙑи”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 915