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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/maťexa

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 *màti (mother) + *-jexa, originally meaning “like a mother”.

Noun

*màťexa f

  1. stepmother

Declension

See also

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: ма́чеха (máčexa), мма́чиха (mmáčixa), ма́щеха (máščexa)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: мащеха (maštexa)
      Glagolitic script: ⰿⰰⱋⰵⱈⰰ (maštexa)
    • Bulgarian: ма́щеха (mášteha), ма́щиха (máštiha); ма́штеха (mášteha), машче́йа (maščéja), ма́штеа (máštea) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: маштеа (maštea); маштиха (maštiha), маќеа (maḱea), макева (makeva) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ма̏ћеха; маћеја, ма̏ћа̄, ма̏ћиха, ма̏ћија, ма̏чија, мачуха, мачеха, маћува (dialectal); маћуха, маћаха
      Latin script: mȁćeha; maćaja, mȁćā, mȁćiha, mȁćija, mȁčija, mačuha, mačeha, maćuva (dialectal); mȁćuha, maćaha
    • Slovene: máčeha, máčuha; mačoha, mazhoha (dialectal)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*matjexa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 266
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    Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1990), “ма́чаха”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 6 (лі́ра – мая́чыць), Minsk: Navuka i technika
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “ма́чуха”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 423
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