Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/maca

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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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Likely onomatopoeic.

Compare German Mieze (pussy, pussycat, female cat), Mietzchen (pussy, kitty), French matou (tomcat), Albanian mace (cat).

Noun

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*maca f

  1. pussy, pussycat, female cat

Inflection

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Derived terms

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See also

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Descendants

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  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: ма́ца (máca)
    • Macedonian: маца (maca)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ма́ца
      Latin script: máca
    • Slovene: muca

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*maca”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 110