On 2008-11-13 15:25, george knysh wrote:
> ****GK: The earliest documented S'an(Sjan)-type rendition known to me is
> the reference to "Sjanok" (a tributary of the S'jan) in 1349 (Slovnyk
> staroukrajins'koi movy XIV-XV st., II, 412, col. 2 [Kyiv: Naukova Dumka,
> 1978. The reference is taken from O. Rozov, Staroukrajins'ki hramoty,
> Kyiv 1928.)****
Perhaps. Anyway, one has to be wary of copied texts. For example Udolph
(and Rieger before him) used a modern (19th.-c.) edition of the Hypatian
Codex, in which the spelling <S'anU>, first found in a 16th-c. copy,
turns out to have been consistently used to replace <sanU>, occurring in
the oldest manuscript of the Codex (c. 1425). According to Babik, who
refers to Nalepa's (1997) analysis of such substitutions, all 14th-c.
copies of Old Ukrainian chronicles have <San->, and the first secure
attestation of <S'an-> is in the above-mentioned 16-th c. copy of the
Hypatian.
Piotr