мънихъ

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

ⰿⱏⱀⰻⱈⱏ (mŭnixŭ) — Glagolitic

Etymology

Borrowed from Moravian (compare Old Czech mnich), from Old High German munih, from Proto-West Germanic *munik, from Late Latin monicus, from Latin monachus, from Ancient Greek μονᾰχός (monăkhós, “solitary, single”).

Compare Old Czech mnich, Old Polish mnich, archaic Bulgarian мних (mnih), archaic Serbo-Croatian мни̏х / mnȉh, Slovene meníh, archaic mníh, Upper Sorbian mnich, Lower Sorbian mnich.

Noun

мънихъ • (mŭnixŭ) m

(hapax legomenon) monk
Synonyms: чрьньць (črĭnĭcĭ), чрьноризьцъ (črĭnorizĭcŭ), (figuratively) братръ (bratrŭ)
- 11th century, Euchologium Sinaiticum (in Glagolitic), 57b13:
  мол‹итва› над‹ъ› оумеръшиим‹ъ› • свѧщ‹е›никомь • ли мⸯнихомъ
  mol‹itva› nad‹ŭ› umerŭšiim‹ŭ› • svęšt‹e›nikomĭ • li mⸯnixomŭ
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of мънихъ (o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	мънихъ mŭnixŭ	мъниха mŭnixa	мъниси mŭnisi
genitive	мъниха mŭnixa	мънихоу mŭnixu	мънихъ mŭnixŭ
dative	мънихоу mŭnixu	мънихома mŭnixoma	мънихомъ mŭnixomŭ
accusative	мънихъ mŭnixŭ	мъниха mŭnixa	мънихꙑ mŭnixy
instrumental	мънихомъ mŭnixomŭ	мънихома mŭnixoma	мънихꙑ mŭnixy
locative	мънисѣ mŭnisě	мънихоу mŭnixu	мънисѣхъ mŭnisěxŭ
vocative	мънише mŭniše	мъниха mŭnixa	мъниси mŭnisi

Derived terms

adjectives

мънишьскъ (mŭnišĭskŭ)

Descendants

→ Old East Slavic: мнихъ (mnixŭ)
- Old Ruthenian: мнихъ (mnix)
  - Belarusian: мніх (mnix)
  - Ukrainian: мних (mnyx)
- Russian: мних (mnix)

References

“мънихъ”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025
Erhart, Adolf, editor (1999), “mъnixъ”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 9 (mrъkati – obrěsti), Prague: Academia, →ISBN, page 512