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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫtę

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
*ǫ̀tę

Etymology

Originally a diminutive form of *ǫtь (“duck”) +‎ *-ę (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

*ǫ̀tę n[1]

  1. duckling
    Synonyms: *patę, *putę, *kačę

Declension
Declension of *ǫtę (nt-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *ǫtę *ǫ̀tęti *ǫ̀tętā
genitive *ǫ̀tęte *ǫ̀tętu *ǫ̀tętъ
dative *ǫ̀tęti *ǫ̀tętьma *ǫ̀tętьmъ
accusative *ǫtę *ǫ̀tęti *ǫ̀tętā
instrumental *ǫ̀tętьmь *ǫ̀tętьma *ǫ̀tętȳ
locative *ǫ̀tęte *ǫ̀tętu *ǫ̀tętьxъ
vocative *ǫtę *ǫ̀tęti *ǫ̀tętā

Derived terms
  • *ǫtenъkъ (diminutive)
    • Old East Slavic:
      • Belarusian: вуцёнак (vucjónak), вуцёнык (vucjónyk), вуцёнък, уцёнък (“duckling”) (dialectal)
      • Middle Russian: утенокъ (utenok)
  • *ǫtęťь (“duck-related”) (East Slavic)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: ꙋтѧ (utę)
      • Belarusian: ву́ця (vúcja), ву́тя (vútja, “duck”);
        • ⇒ Belarusian: вуцяня (vucjanja) вуцянё (vucjanjó), вуцяня́ (vucjanjá)/вуценя́ (vucjenjá), вутеня́ (vutjenjá, “duckling”) (dialectal)
      • Russian: у́тя (útja, “duck”), утя́ (utjá, “duckling”) (dialectal)
        • ⇒ Russian: утёна (utjóna); утеня́ (utenjá, “ducklings”), вутеня́ (vutenjá, “duckling”) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: вутя́ (vutjá), утя́ (utjá, “duckling; duck”)
        • ⇒ Ukrainian: вутеня́ (vutenjá), утеня́ (utenjá); вутяня́ (vutjanjá) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: ѫтѧ (ǫtę), оутѧ (utę)
      Glagolitic script: ⱘⱅⱔ (ǫtę), ⱆⱅⱔ (utę)
      • Bulgarian: уте́ (uté) (obsolete)
        • ⇒ Bulgarian: уте́нце (uténce) (dialectal, rare)
  • West Slavic:
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: huśe, uśe, wuśe, wyśe (“duckling”)

Further reading
  • Zhuravlyov, A. F., Varbot, Zh. Zh., editors (2016), “*ǫtę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 40 (*ǫborъkъ – *pakъla), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 75

References
  1. Olander, Thomas (2001) “ǫtę”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 142)”
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