Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sьčь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sьčь

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

From *sьkati (“to piss”) +‎ *-jь. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sikʷ-éh₁-ti, from *seykʷ- (“to moisten”).

Noun

*sьčь m[1]

1. urine

Related terms

• *sikati (“to piss”)
• *sьcati (“to piss”)
• *sь̀kyľь (“clitoris; vulva”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сьць m (sĭcĭ), сець m (secĭ), сьча f (sĭča), шьча f (šĭča), ща f (šča), сца f (sca)
    • Old Ruthenian: сечь m (sečʹ)
      • Rusyn: сич m (syč)
        • ⇒ Rusyn: щи́на f (ščýna)
      • Ukrainian: се́ча f (séča), сеч m (seč); си́ча f (sýča) (dialectal)
        • ⇒ Ukrainian: щи́на f (ščýna), щи́ни pl (ščýny) (dialectal)
    • Middle Russian: сець (secʹ) (1499), сецъ (sec) (1660)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: сьчь (sĭčĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⱐⱍⱐ (sĭčĭ)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: са̏ч

    Latin: sȁč

  • Slovene: sẹ̑č (tonal orthography)

References

1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “се́ча”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 223