Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫtę
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Originally a diminutive form of *ǫtь (“duck”) + *-ę (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
*ǫ̀tę n[1]
- duckling
- Synonyms: *patę, *putę, *kačę
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *ǫtę | *ǫ̀tęti | *ǫ̀tętā |
| genitive | *ǫ̀tęte | *ǫ̀tętu | *ǫ̀tętъ |
| dative | *ǫ̀tęti | *ǫ̀tętьma | *ǫ̀tętьmъ |
| accusative | *ǫtę | *ǫ̀tęti | *ǫ̀tętā |
| instrumental | *ǫ̀tętьmь | *ǫ̀tętьma | *ǫ̀tętȳ |
| locative | *ǫ̀tęte | *ǫ̀tętu | *ǫ̀tętьxъ |
| vocative | *ǫtę | *ǫ̀tęti | *ǫ̀tętā |
Derived terms
- *ǫtenъkъ (diminutive)
- *ǫtęťь (“duck-related”) (East Slavic)
Related terms
- *ǫtь (“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 script: ѫтѧ (ǫtę), оутѧ (utę)
- Glagolitic script: 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), numbers 40 (*ǫborъkъ – *pakъla), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 75