Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pacę

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

*pacę

Etymology

From *pac- +‎ *-ę. Root of Onomatopoeic origin, compare Ukrainian паць (pacʹ), паць-паць (pacʹ-pacʹ), which is used to call pigs.

Noun

*pacę̀ n

1. piglet

   Synonyms: *porsę, *svinę

Declension

Declension of *pacę (nt-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pacę	*pačęti	*pačęta
genitive	*pačęte	*pačętu	*pačętъ
dative	*pačęti	*pačętьma	*pačętьmъ
accusative	*pacę	*pačęti	*pačęta
instrumental	*pačętьmь	*pačętьma	*pačęty
locative	*pačęte	*pačętu	*pačętьxъ
vocative	*pacę	*pačęti	*pačęta

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *пацѧ (*pacę)
    • Old Ruthenian: *пацѧ́ (*pacjá)
      • Belarusian: па́ца (páca) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: паця́ (pacjá)
      • Ukrainian: паця́ (pacjá); пацє́ (pacjé), пацья́ (pacʹjá), паце́ (pacé) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Slovene: pâce (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: pace, pàče (dialectal)

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2003), “па́ця́”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 4 (Н – П), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 323