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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫtę
Proto-Slavic
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*ǫ̀tę
Etymology
Originally a diminutive form of *ǫtь (“duck”) + *-ę (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
*ǫ̀tę n[1]
- duckling
- Synonyms: *patę, *putę, *kačę
Declension
Declension of *ǫtę (nt-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *ǫtę | *ǫ̀tęti | *ǫ̀tętā |
Accusative | *ǫtę | *ǫ̀tęti | *ǫ̀tętā |
Genitive | *ǫ̀tęte | *ǫ̀tętu | *ǫ̀tętъ |
Locative | *ǫ̀tęte | *ǫ̀tętu | *ǫ̀tętьxъ |
Dative | *ǫ̀tęti | *ǫ̀tętьma | *ǫ̀tętьmъ |
Instrumental | *ǫ̀tętьmь | *ǫ̀tętьma | *ǫ̀tętȳ |
Vocative | *ǫtę | *ǫ̀tęti | *ǫ̀tętā |
Derived terms
- *ǫtenъkъ (diminutive)
- Old East Slavic:
- Belarusian: вуцёнак (vucjónak), вуцёнык (vucjónyk), вуцёнък, уцёнък (“duckling”) (dialectal)
- Middle Russian: утенокъ (utenok)
- Russian: утёнок (utjónok, “duckling; drake”); утено́к (utenók, “duckling”) (dialectal)
- Old East Slavic:
- *ǫtęťь (“duck-related”) (East Slavic)
Related terms
- *ǫtь (“duck”)
- *ǫtica, *ǫtъka (“duck”) (diminutive)
- *ǫtìnъ (“duck-related”) (East Slavic)
- *ǫty (“duck”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ꙋтѧ (utę)
- Belarusian: ву́ця (vúcja), ву́тя (vútja, “duck”);
- ⇒ Belarusian: вуцяня (vucjanja) вуцянё (vucjanjó), вуцяня́ (vucjanjá)/вуценя́ (vucjenjá), вутеня́ (vutjenjá, “duckling”) (dialectal)
- Russian: у́тя (útja, “duck”), утя́ (utjá, “duckling”) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Russian: утёна (utjóna); утеня́ (utenjá, “ducklings”), вутеня́ (vutenjá, “duckling”) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: вутя́ (vutjá), утя́ (utjá, “duckling; duck”)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: вутеня́ (vutenjá), утеня́ (utenjá); вутяня́ (vutjanjá) (dialectal)
- Belarusian: ву́ця (vúcja), ву́тя (vútja, “duck”);
- Old East Slavic: ꙋтѧ (utę)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: ѫтѧ (ǫtę), оутѧ (utę)
- Glagolitic: ⱘⱅⱔ (ǫtę), ⱆⱅⱔ (utę)
- Bulgarian: уте́ (uté) (obsolete)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: уте́нце (uténce) (dialectal, rare)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: huśe, uśe, wuśe, wyśe (“duckling”)
- Sorbian:
Further reading
- Zhuravlyov, A. F., Varbot, Zh. Zh., editors (2016), “*ǫtę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 40 (*ǫborъkъ – *pakъla), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 75
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “ǫtę”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 142)”