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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zajęcь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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
*zajęcь sěditъ na stьrni

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an earlier *zajękъ (still reflected in Bulgarian and Macedonian), of uncertain origin. One possibility is a connection to Lithuanian žaĩsti (“to play around”), supposing an original meaning hopper. If Old Armenian ձի (ji, “horse”) and Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (“to hop, to impel”) are also cognates, then a likely origin would be (per Snoj) Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰōy-en-kos. Further cognates could be Proto-Germanic *gaits (“goat”), Latin haedus (“buck”) (via *-dos extension).

Less likely from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂- (“to nourish, earth”) encountered in Ancient Greek γῆ (gê, “Earth”) (possibly Ancient Greek γᾰ́λᾰ (gála)), which is qualified as dubious by Vasmer.

Shares an analogous morphological ending as Proto-Slavic *měsęcь (“month”), Proto-Slavic *pujęcь (“peacock”) : *pujęca (“turkey”).

Likely related[1] to Lithuanian zuĩkis, from *zuojekas; while Latvian zaķis was borrowed from Belarusian за́йка (zájka).

Noun

zàjęcь m [2][3]

  1. rabbit, hare

Declension
Declension of *zàjęcь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *zàjęcь *zàjęca *zàjęci
Accusative *zàjęcь *zàjęca *zàjęcę̇
Genitive *zàjęca *zàjęcu *zàjęcь
Locative *zàjęci *zàjęcu *zàjęcīxъ
Dative *zàjęcu *zàjęcema *zàjęcēmъ
Instrumental *zàjęcьmь, *zàjęcemь* *zàjęcema *zàjęcī
Vocative *zàjęče *zàjęca *zàjęci
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

Further reading
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “заяц”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
  • Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “zając”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, published 1985, page 643
  • Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “заек”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 587

References
  1. T. Skikevich, 2007: Балто-славянский период в формировании лексики русского языка (на примере наименований диких животных) at Materials from International Linguistic Conference at Ryazan State University, May 2007, , page 183 (in Russian),
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “zȃjec”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN: “*za̋jęcь”
  3. Olander, Thomas (2001), “zajęcь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”
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