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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/roďanica

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 *roďanъ +‎ *-ica?

Noun

*roďanica f[1]

  1. (originally) she who was born
  2. (Slavic mythology, usually in the plural) rozhanitsa (Slavic spirit of the fate)

Declension
Declension of *roďanica (soft a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *roďanica *roďanici *roďanicę̇
genitive *roďanicę̇ *roďanicu *roďanicь
dative *roďanici *roďanicama *roďanicamъ
accusative *roďanicǫ *roďanici *roďanicę̇
instrumental *roďanicejǫ, *roďanicǫ** *roďanicama *roďanicami
locative *roďanici *roďanicu *roďanicasъ, *roďanicaxъ*
vocative *roďanice *roďanici *roďanicę̇
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: рожданица (roždanica), рожаница (rožanica)
      • Belarusian: ро́жаніца (róžanica)
      • Russian: роженица (roženica), рожаница (rožanica)
      • Ukrainian: рожаница (rožanyca)
    • → Polish: rodzanica, rożanica (learned)
    • → Czech: rožanica (learned)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: рожданица (roždanica)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin script: rođenica
      Cyrillic script: рођеница
    • Slovene: rojeníca (tonal orthography)

References
  1. Трубачёв, Олег Николаевич (a. 2002) Труды по этимологии: Слово · История · Культура (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Языки славянской культуры, published 2005, →ISBN, page 434

Further reading
  • The template Template:R:be:ESBM does not use the parameter(s): 
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    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2006), “ро́жаніца”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 11 (раб – сая́н), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN
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