жонка

Inherited from Old Ruthenian жо́нка (žónka). By surface analysis, жана́ (žaná) +‎ -ка (-ka).

• IPA^(key): [ˈʐonka]
• Rhymes: -onka

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• Hyphenation: жон‧ка

жо́нка • (žónka) f pers (genitive жо́нкі, nominative plural жо́нкі, genitive plural жо́нак, relational adjective жано́чы)

1. wife (a married woman in relation to her husband)

   Мая жонка руская. ― Maja žónka ruskaja. ― My wife is Russian.

• “жонка”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “жонка” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

• жѡ́нка (žốnka), жу́нка (žúnka), жи́нка (žínka) — Middle Ukrainian
• же́нка (žénka) — archaic form

Inherited from Old East Slavic жонъка (žonŭka), женъка (ženŭka), from Proto-Slavic *žènъka, from *ženà. By surface analysis, жона́ (žoná) +‎ -ка (-ka).

жо́нка • (žónka) f

1. wife
2. woman
3. female slave
4. maidservant, housemaid

• Belarusian: жо́нка (žónka); (dialectal) жынка (žynka)
• Carpathian Rusyn: жу́нка (žúnka)
• Ukrainian: жі́нка (žínka); (dialectal) жо́нка (žónka), жу́нка (žúnka), жи́нка (žýnka)

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1990), “жонка, женка”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 10 (жеребецъ – замена), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 51
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2002), “жонка, жунка”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 9 (дѣдичъ – загонити), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 178
• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1932), “жинка”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 2 (Г – Ж), Kharkiv, Kyiv: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, page 931
• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1932), “жонка”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 2 (Г – Ж), Kharkiv, Kyiv: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, page 940
• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1932), “жунка”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 2 (Г – Ж), Kharkiv, Kyiv: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, page 942
• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1932), “жѣнка”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 2 (Г – Ж), Kharkiv, Kyiv: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, page 947
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “жонка”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 363