дъци

Old Novgorodian

Alternative forms

• доци (doći)

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 • (dŭći) f

1. daughter
   • c. 1200‒1220, Schaeken, Jos (2019) Voices on Birchbark (SSGL; 43)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, transl., Берестяная грамота № 531 [Birchbark letter no. 531]‎^[2], 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 …

     … a nyne izveta emu ljudemi kako esi vozložilo poruku na moju sestru i na doćerĭ ei nazovalo esi sĭtru moju korovoju i doćere blędeju a nyneća θedo prĭjexavo uslyšavo to slovo i vygonalo setru moju i xotelo potęti …

     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, Schaeken, Jos (2019) Voices on Birchbark (SSGL; 43)‎^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, transl., Берестяная грамота № Ст. Р. 40 [Birchbark letter no. St. R. 40]‎^[4], Staraya Russa:

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

     … poidite v gorodŭ k sei nedili davati mi doći a sestri mojei pristavnićatĭ …

     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 (otĭćĭ), батько (batĭko, “father”)	мати (mati, “mother”)
sibling	брате (brate, “brother”)	сестра (sestra, “sister”)
child	сꙑнъ (synŭ, “son”)	дъци (dŭći, “daughter”)
grandparent	дѣде (děde, “grandfather”)	баба (baba, “grandmother”)
grandchild	въноуке (vŭnuke, “grandson”)	? (“granddaughter”)
stepparent	*отьцимъ (*otĭćimŭ, “stepfather”)	*мацеха (*maćexa, “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 (zętĭ, “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]‎^[5] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 735