This word was discovered in birch bark.
Russian scientists found out what does the word “posek”, which was discovered in birch bark, was found during excavations in Novgorod.
It turned out that the word was used in a pejorative sense, it meant “drunk” or “lazy.” This happens a curse from the word “Posada”, which is called city. According to academician Andrei Zaliznyak, the peasants believed that the inhabitants of large settlements was drinking.
Found the letter contains just one line: “WOW ARTEMIA UO OSAKA THREE BEREGOVSKI”. According to scientists, is a record of dues or debt, because “berkovets” — a measure of weight of grain or honey, is equal to 10 poods. The exact meaning of the message remains unclear. The word “posek” was found in birch bark documents for the first time.
In 2015, the Russian archeologists have found the first birch bark in Vologda. Despite difficulties with interpretation, linguists have been able to understand most of the first text from Vologda: businessman Yakov, who lived in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, was trying to figure out, did not disappoint his messenger Ostap promised to transfer the money to a certain a Samoylo.
