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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sьčь

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
  • *sičь, *sьcь

Etymology

By surface analysis, *sьk- +‎ *-jь. See *sьcati (“to piss”). Roots *sьk- : *sěk- : *sik-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sik- : *saik- : *seik-, from Proto-Indo-European *sikʷ- : *soykʷ- : *seykʷ- (“to moisten”).

Noun

*sьčь m[1]

  1. urine
Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *seykʷ-‎ (0 c, 10 e)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: сьць (sĭcĭ), сець (secĭ), сьча f (sĭča), сьца f (sĭca), шьча f (šĭča), ща f (šča)
      • Middle Russian: сець (secʹ), сецъ (sec)
      • Old Ruthenian: сечь (sečʹ)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: сич (syč)
        • Ukrainian: сеч (seč), се́ча f (séča); си́ча f (sýča) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: сьчь (sĭčĭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⱄⱐⱍⱐ (sĭčĭ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: са̏ч
      Latin script: sȁč
    • Slovene: sẹ̑č (tonal orthography)

References
  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “се́ча”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 223: “псл. sьčь ― psl. sʹčʹ”

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1972) “сцать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Муза – Сят), Moscow: Progress, page 815
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