Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zanovětь
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unclear. While formally and by the main meaning strain of Genisteae tribe plants closer to *za- + *noviti (“to renew”) + *-ětь, because cleaning the house with besoms from Cytisus scoparia makes the house appear new, or for some magical reason of starting a new month or the like, it may actually be *za- + *navь (“dead man, corpse; evil spectre”) + *-ětь, as broomrape is usually named as a death-bringer, see the translations of broomrape, occurring together with brooms because of parasitizing them and then possibly named together; though the meaning of broomrape is missing in the descendants of *zanovětь, this derivation also works with the noxious weed restharrow (Ononis). But in view of Finnish näive (“broomrape”) there may be a phono-semantic matching of Uralic. In either case, if originally *zanavětь, possibly reinterpreted as from *novъ (“new”) after the original referent stepped aside in favour of a new one.
Noun
[edit]*zanovětь m
Inflection
[edit]singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *zanovětь | *zanověti | *zanovětьje, *zanověťe* |
genitive | *zanověti | *zanovětьju, *zanověťu* | *zanovětьjь, *zanověti* |
dative | *zanověti | *zanovětьma | *zanovětьmъ |
accusative | *zanovětь | *zanověti | *zanověti |
instrumental | *zanovětьmь | *zanovětьma | *zanovětьmi |
locative | *zanověti | *zanovětьju, *zanověťu* | *zanovětьxъ |
vocative | *zanověti | *zanověti | *zanovětьje, *zanověťe* |
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- Russian: зановец (zanovec), зановица (zanovica), зановит (zanovit), зановат (zanovat), зеноват (zenovat) (obsolete, Ukraine)
- Ukrainian: зі́но́вать (zínóvatʹ), жарновець (žarnovecʹ) are standard, other forms include за́новать (zánovatʹ), за́новіть (zánovitʹ), зановить (zanovytʹ), зиновать (zynovatʹ), зиновник (zynovnyk), зіновник (zinovnyk), зіновка (zinovka), зановат (zanovat), зановец (zanovec), зановит (zanovyt)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: janovít, janofít, janobít, janosít, janosiet, jinosít
- Old Polish: zanowiec, zanowięć, żarnowiec, sianowiec, janosiet, janobyt, sianożęć, żnisiano
- Polish: janowiec, żarnowiec, zanowiec, zanowiacz
- → Belarusian: зяно́вец (zjanóvjec)
- Slovak: žanovec, zanovec, zanovit, zánovec – notably for Galega officinalis and Melilotus officinalis
- Sorbian:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: zanót
Further reading
[edit]- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “за̀новец”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 600
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “зі́но́вать”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Miklosich, Franz (1886) “*zanovêtĭ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 399b
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “janoẃeś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008, wrongly reconstructs *janovětь, which form is only valid in the Catholic Slavia after the personal name Jan, due to blossoming at Saint John's Eve
- Пујић, Саво (2013) Херцеговачка пчеларска лексика (Српски дијалектолошки зборник; 60)[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), Београд: Институт за српски језик Српске академије наука и уметности, page 693
- Proto-Slavic terms with unknown etymologies
- Proto-Slavic terms prefixed with *za-
- Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-ětь
- Proto-Slavic phono-semantic matchings from Uralic languages
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Uralic languages
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