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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nicь

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 Proto-Indo-European *nih₃kʷo-, from *(h₁)ni- (down), from *h₁én. Cognate with Sanskrit नीच (nīcá).

Adjective

*nĩcь[1][2]

  1. lying face downwards

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: ниць (nicĭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: ниць (nicĭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⱀⰻⱌⱐ (nicĭ)
    • Bulgarian: нѝчком (nìčkom), ни́цом (nícom) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: ничкум (ničkum) (secondary)
    • Slovene: vnȋc (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ниц”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nicь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 352:adj. jo ‘lying face downwards’
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “nȋc”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *nicь̏
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