Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zanovětь

Unclear. Although the formal derivation and primary semantic strain of the Genisteae tribe points to *za- +‎ *noviti (“to renew”) +‎ *-ětь, perhaps because cleaning the house with besoms made from Cytisus scoparia makes the house appear new – or due to some magical association with beginning a new month –, the term may actually derive from *za- +‎ *navь (“dead man, corpse; evil spectre”) +‎ *-ětь, since broomrape is traditionally named as a death-bringer (see translations of broomrape), its name possibly conjoined with that of brooms after it parasitizes them. Even though the sense “broomrape” is lost in the descendants of *zanovětь, this derivation fits with the noxious weed restharrow (Ononis). Moreover, in view of Finnish näive (“broomrape”), there may be a phono-semantic matching of Uralic element involved. In any case, if the original form were *zanavětь, it might later have been reinterpreted as deriving from *novъ (“new”), after the original referent gave way to a new one.

*zanovětь m

1. broom (especially Cytisus); restharrow (Ononis)
2. (uncertain) broomrape (Orobanche)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: зановец (zanovec), зановица (zanovica), зановит (zanovit), зановат (zanovat), зеноват (zenovat) (obsolete, Ukraine)
  • Ukrainian: зі́но́вать (zínóvatʹ), жарновець (žarnovecʹ) are standard, other forms include за́новать (zánovatʹ), за́новіть (zánovitʹ), зановить (zanovytʹ), зиновать (zynovatʹ), зиновник (zynovnyk), зіновник (zinovnyk), зіновка (zinovka), зановат (zanovat), зановец (zanovec), зановит (zanovyt)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: за́новец (zánovec), за́новет (zánovet), за́новит (zánovit)
  • Macedonian: зановет (zanovet), занофит (zanofit)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: за̏нове̄т, за̏новје̄т, за̏новије̄т, за̏наве̄т

    Latin script: zȁnovēt, zȁnovjēt, zȁnovijēt, zȁnavēt

  • Slovene: zánovet
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: janovít, janofít, janobít, janosít, janosiet, jinosít
    • Czech: janovec, žanovec, dialectally zanovec
  • Old Polish: zanowiec, zanowięć, żarnowiec, sianowiec, janosiet, janobyt, sianożęć, żnisiano
  • Polish: janowiec, żarnowiec, zanowiec, zanowiacz
    • → Belarusian: зяно́вец (zjanóvjec)
  • Slovak: žanovec, zanovec, zanovit, zánovec – notably for Galega officinalis and Melilotus officinalis
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: janowjeś, nowjeś, zanowjeś, zanowiś

    Upper Sorbian: žanowc

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: zanót

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “за̀новец”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 600
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “зі́но́вать”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN
• Miklosich, Franz (1886) “*zanovêtĭ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 399b
• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “janoẃeś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008, wrongly reconstructs *janovětь, which form is only valid in the Catholic Slavia after the personal name Jan, due to blossoming at Saint John's Eve
• Пујић, Саво (2013) Херцеговачка пчеларска лексика (Српски дијалектолошки зборник; 60)‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), Београд: Институт за српски језик Српске академије наука и уметности, page 693