женитва

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žena + Proto-Slavic *-tva.

Akin to Czech ženitba, Bulgarian женитба (ženitba), Macedonian женидба (ženidba) Serbo-Croatian женидба, Kashubian Żenba, Slovak ženba. Probably connected with Sanskrit जनित्व (janitva).

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛˈnitʋɑ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛˈnʲitʋa/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛˈnʲitʋa/

Noun

женитва (ženitva) f

  1. marriage
    въ мироу и в батьствѣ и въ женитвѣ
  2. wedding

Declension

  • женитвие (ženitvie)

Descendants

  • Belarusian: жаніцьба (žanicʹba)
  • Russian: женитьба (ženitʹba)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: женитва (ženytva)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “женитва”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 858
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