Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěčьňь

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

Alternative form

*sěčьnъ

Etymology

From *sěťi (“to cut”) +‎ *-ьňь, due to the winter months of January and February being traditionally occupied by the felling of trees for timber.^[1]^[2]

Noun

*sěčьňь m^[1]

February; January

Declension

Declension of *sěčьňь (soft o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sěčьňь	*sěčьňa	*sěčьňi
genitive	*sěčьňa	*sěčьňu	*sěčьňь
dative	*sěčьňu	*sěčьňema	*sěčьňemъ
accusative	*sěčьňь	*sěčьňa	*sěčьňę̇
instrumental	sěčьňьmь, sěčьňemь^*	*sěčьňema	*sěčьňi
locative	*sěčьňi	*sěčьňu	*sěčьňixъ
vocative	*sěčьňu	*sěčьňa	*sěčьňi

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сѣчьнь (sěčĭnĭ, “February”), сѣчьнъ (sěčĭnŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: сѣ́чень (sě́čenʹ, “February”)
    - Belarusian: се́чань (sjéčanʹ, “January”) (archaic)
    - Ukrainian: сі́чень (síčenʹ, “January”)
  - Middle Russian: сѣчень (sěčenʹ, “January”)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic script: cⱑⱍⱐⱀⱐ (cěčĭnĭ, “February; January”)
  
  Old Cyrillic script: cѣчьн҄ь (cěčĭnʹĭ, “February; January”)
  - Bulgarian: се́чен (séčen) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: се̑чањ, сје̑чањ (“January”)
  
  Latin script: sȇčanj, sjȇčanj (“January”)
- Slovene: (dialectal) séčen, séčenj, sečȃn, sečȃnj (“January”) (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: sečen (“July”) (dialectal), sečeň (“January; February”) (archaic)
- Old Polish: sieczeń (“February”)
- Old Slovak: sečeň
  - Slovak: sečeň (“January; February”) (archaic)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “сі́чень”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 258: “*sěčьnь ― *sěčʹnʹ”
^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “styczeń”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN

[ESUM-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “сі́чень”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 258: “*sěčьnь ― *sěčʹnʹ”

[2] Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “styczeń”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN

[1]

[2]