Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bičь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bičь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Analysable as *bìti (“to beat”) +‎ *-čь.

Noun

*bičь m

1. whip

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бичь (bičĭ)
    • Belarusian: біч (bič)
    • Russian: бич (bič)
    • Rusyn: бич (byč)
    • Ukrainian: бич (byč)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: бичь (bičĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰱⰻⱍⱐ (bičĭ)

  • Bulgarian: бич (bič)
  • Macedonian: бич (bič)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: би̏ч

    Latin: bȉč

  • Slovene: bìč
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: bič
    • Czech: bič
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): bjič
  • Kashubian: bicz
  • Old Polish: bicz
    • Polish: bicz
  • Kashubian: bicz
  • Slovak: bič
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: bič
    • Lower Sorbian: bic

• Non-Slavic:
• → German: Peitsche
  • → Polish: pejcz
• → Romanian: bici

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bičь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 94
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бич”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress