Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pacę

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *pac- +‎ *-ę. Root of Onomatopoeic origin, compare Ukrainian паць (pacʹ), паць-паць (pacʹ-pacʹ), which is used to call pigs.

Noun

*pacę̀ n[1]

  1. piglet
    Synonyms: *porsę, *svinę

Declension

Declension of *pacę (nt-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *pacę *pačęti *pačęta
genitive *pačęte *pačętu *pačętъ
dative *pačęti *pačętьma *pačętьmъ
accusative *pacę *pačęti *pačęta
instrumental *pačętьmь *pačętьma *pačęty
locative *pačęte *pačętu *pačętьxъ
vocative *pacę *pačęti *pačęta

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *пацѧ (*pacę)
      • Old Ruthenian: *пацѧ́ (*pacjá)
        • Belarusian: па́ца (páca) (dialectal)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: паця́ (pacjá)
        • Ukrainian: паця́ (pacjá); пацє́ (pacjé), пацья́ (pacʹjá), паце́ (pacé) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Slovene: pâce (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Polish: pace, pàče (dialectal)

References

  1. ^ Zhuravlyov, A. F., Varbot, Zh. Zh., editors (2016), “*pacę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 40 (*ǫborъkъ – *pakъla), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 127

Further reading

  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2003), “па́ця́”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 4 (Н – П), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 323