дъци

Old Novgorodian

Alternative forms

• доци (doci)

Etymology

PIE word
*dʰugh₂tḗr

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъ̏ťi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *duktḗ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (“daughter”). First attested in c. 1200‒1220.

Cognate with Old East Slavic дъчи (dŭči), Old Church Slavonic дъщи (dŭšti).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: дъ‧ци

Noun

дъци • (dŭci) f

1. daughter
   • c. 1200‒1220, Jos Schaeken, transl., Берестяная грамота № 531 [Birchbark letter no. 531]‎^[1], Novgorod:

     … а нꙑне иꙁвета емоу людеми како еси воꙁложило пороукоу на мою сестроу и на доцерь еи наꙁовало еси сьтроу мою коровою и доцере блѧдею а нꙑнеца ѳедо прьехаво оуслꙑшаво то слово и вꙑгонало сетроу мою и хотело потѧти …

     Declare to him before witnesses, “When you placed a surety-bond on my sister and on her daughter, you called my sister a slut and (her) daughter a whore. Then Fed (i.e., Fedor), when he arrived and heard about that statement, drove my sister out and was near to killing her.”

   • c. 1380‒1400, Jos Schaeken, transl., Берестяная грамота № Ст. Р. 40 [Birchbark letter no. St. R. 40]‎^[2], Staraya Russa:

     … поідите в городъ к сеі недили давати ми доци а сестри моѥі приставницать …

     … poidite v gorodŭ k sei nedili davati mi doci a sestri mojei pristavnicatĭ …

     Come to the city before this Sunday. I am to give my daughter (in marriage), and my sister should be an attendant.

Descendants

• → Russian: доци́ (docí) (dialectal)

See also

Old Novgorodian family terms

роде (rode, “family”)	male	female
parent	отьць (otĭcĭ), батько (batĭko, “father”)	мати (mati, “mother”)
sibling	брате (brate, “brother”)	сестра (sestra, “sister”)
child	сꙑнъ (synŭ, “son”)	дъци (dŭci, “daughter”)
grandparent	дѣде (děde, “grandfather”)	баба (baba, “grandmother”)
grandchild	въноуке (vŭnuke, “grandson”)	? (“granddaughter”)
stepparent	*отьцимъ (*otĭcimŭ, “stepfather”)	*мацеха (*macexa, “stepmother”)
parents' sibling	дꙗдꙗ (djadja, “parents' uncle”) стръи (strŷi, “paternal uncle”), *оуи (*ui, “maternal uncle”)	тетька (tetĭka, “parents' aunt”)
spouse	мѫжь (mǫžĭ, “husband”)	жона (žona, “wife”)
parent of wife	тьсть (tĭstĭ, “father-in-law (wife's father)”)	? (“mother-in-law (wife's mother)”)
parent of husband	свекре (svekre, “father-in-law (husband's father)”)	? (“mother-in-law (husband's father)”)
spouse of child	ꙁѧть (“son-in-law (daughter's husband)”)	снъха (snŭxa, “daughter-in-law (son's wife)”)

Further reading

• “дъци”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024
• Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[3] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 735