женитва
Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *žena + Proto-Slavic *-tva.
Akin to Czech ženitba, Bulgarian женитба (ženitba), Macedonian женидба (ženidba)Serbo-Croatian женидба, Kashubian Żenba, Slovak ženba.Probably connected with Sanskrit जनित्व (janitva).
Noun
женитва (ženitva) f
- marriage
- въ мироу и в батьствѣ и въ женитвѣ
- wedding
Related terms
- женитвиѥ (ženitvije)
Descendants
- Belarusian: жаніцьба (žanicʹba)
- Russian: женитьба (ženitʹba)
- Rusyn: женитва (ženytva)
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “женитва”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1: А – К, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 858