Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/batь

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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

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Etymology

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Usually viewed as a baby-word or a borrowing:

Morphologically resembles kin terms in *-tь, including *zętь (son-in-law), *tьstь (father-in-law), *netь(jь) (nephew).

Compare also Hungarian bátya (big brother), Moksha патя (paťa, elder sibling), Komi-Permyak бать (bať). Further reminiscent of Turkish baba, dial. Tatar aba, Hungarian apa, Ket баат (patriarch, old man), Proto-Mongolic *aba, Korean 아빠 (appa).

Noun

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*batь n

  1. elder relative or respected acquaintance (as a honorific)
  2. (figurative) role model

Declension

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See also

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Ukrainian: бат (bat) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: бат (bat) (honorific)

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bata/*baťa/*batja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 162
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бате”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 36
  • Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “bacë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 13