Un nouvel adjectif grec dans un document kiévien : l'inscription n° 67 de la cathédrale Sainte-Sophie

A new greek adjective in a kievan document: inscription n°67 from Saint Sophia's cathedral The last line of inscription n° 67 in S. A. Vysockij's 1966 edition contains a slavonicized Greek syntagm στιχηρὰ πανταρχικά (accusative neuter plural) « stichera to the Allmighty ». It offers a new example of the original neuter gender for стиχҍра/стиχирд, which is usually feminine in Slavic. Since this inscription is a prayer to Saint Artemios, and not to God, it is likely that the author took it either from a manuscript with Greek liturgical hymns not translated, but simply transcribed into Cyrillic, or from some Menæa or the like, but did not understand properly the meaning of the adjective, which he used wrongly in his inscription.Le Feuvre Claire. Un nouvel adjectif grec dans un document kiévien : l'inscription n° 67 de la cathédrale Sainte-Sophie. In: Revue des études slaves, tome 69, fascicule 3, 1997. pp. 327-336