Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/roďanica

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 *roďanъ +‎ *-ica?

Noun

*roďanica f^[1]

(originally) she who was born
(Slavic mythology, usually in the plural) rozhanitsa (Slavic spirit of the fate)

Declension

Declension of *roďanica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*roďanica	*roďanici	*roďanicę̇
genitive	*roďanicę̇	*roďanicu	*roďanicь
dative	*roďanici	*roďanicama	*roďanicamъ
accusative	*roďanicǫ	*roďanici	*roďanicę̇
instrumental	roďanicejǫ, roďanicǫ^**	*roďanicama	*roďanicami
locative	*roďanici	*roďanicu	roďanicasъ, roďanicaxъ^*
vocative	*roďanice	*roďanici	*roďanicę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: рожданица (roždanica), рожаница (rožanica)
  - Belarusian: ро́жаніца (róžanica)
  - Russian: роженица (roženica), рожаница (rožanica)
  - Ukrainian: рожаница (rožanyca)
- → Polish: rodzanica, rożanica (learned)
- → Czech: rožanica (learned)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: рожданица (roždanica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: rođenica
  
  Cyrillic script: рођеница
- Slovene: rojeníca (tonal orthography)

References

^ Трубачёв, Олег Николаевич (a. 2002) Труды по этимологии: Слово · История · Культура (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Языки славянской культуры, published 2005, →ISBN, page 434