Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bajačь

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

Etymology

From *bajati +‎ *-ačь.

Noun

*bajačь m

1. witch doctor, shaman

Declension

Declension of *bajačь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bajačь	*bajača	*bajači
genitive	*bajača	*bajaču	*bajačь
dative	*bajaču	*bajačema	*bajačemъ
accusative	*bajačь	*bajača	*bajačę̇
instrumental	*bajačьmь, *bajačemь*	*bajačema	*bajači
locative	*bajači	*bajaču	*bajačixъ
vocative	*bajaču	*bajača	*bajači

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бая́ч (bajáč)
  • Macedonian: бајач (bajač)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ба̀ја̑ч

    Latin script: bàjȃč

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: báječ

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bajačь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 137