< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bьčelьjь

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 reconstructions

  • *bъčelьjь (ESSJa, Sławski)[1][2]

Etymology

From *bьčelà (bee) + *-ьjь.

Adjective

*bьčelьjь[1][2]

  1. (relational) bee

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *бьчелии (*bĭčelii)
      • Old Ruthenian: *бчолїй (*bčolij)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: пчолїй (pčoljij)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пчелија f (rare)
      Latin script: pčelija f (rare)
    • Slovene: čebẹ̑lji (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bъčelьjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 106
  2. Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “bъčelьjь”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 457
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.