Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bričь

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 *briti +‎ *-čь.

Noun

*bričь m^[1]

razor

Inflection

Declension of *bričь (soft o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bričь	*briča	*briči
genitive	*briča	*briču	*bričь
dative	*briču	*bričema	*bričemъ
accusative	*bričь	*briča	*bričę̇
instrumental	bričьmь, bričemь^*	*bričema	*briči
locative	*briči	*briču	*bričixъ
vocative	*briču	*briča	*briči

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
  - Ukrainian: брич (bryč), брыч (bryč) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: бричь (bričĭ)
- Bulgarian: брич (brič)
- Macedonian: брич (brič)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: бри̑ч
  
  Latin script: brȋč

Non-Slavic:
- → Proto-Albanian: *britška
  - Albanian: brisk

Further reading

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bričь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 25

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bričь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 62: “m. jo ‘razor’”