Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/baba ęga

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 edit

*bàba ęga (sense 1)

Etymology edit

Compound of *bàba +‎ *ęga.

Noun edit

*bàba ęga f^[1]

Baba Yaga
old witch, hag

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: Ба́ба Ѧга́ (Bába Ęgá), Ѧга́ Ба́ба (Ęgá Bába)
  - Old Ruthenian: Ба́ба Ѧга́ (Bába Jahá)
    - Belarusian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jahá)
    - Ukrainian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jahá); Язіба́ба (Jazibába) (dialectal)
  - Russian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá)
    - → Bulgarian: Ба́ба Я́га (Bába Jága)
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: Баба Јага
      
      Latin script: Baba Jaga
    - → Slovene: Jaga baba
  - → Polish: Baba Jaga, Baba-Jaga
South Slavic:
- Macedonian: Баба Рога (Baba Roga)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: бабаро́га
  
  Latin script: babaróga
West Slavic:
- Czech: Baba Jaga; ježibaba
- Kashubian: jãdzëbaba
- Polish: Baba Jędza
- Slovak: Baba Jaga; ježibaba; jedžibaba, jenzibaba, jendžibaba, jendžibaba (dialectal)
  - → Ukrainian: инджиба́ба (yndžybába) (dialectal)

Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: Baba Iaga

References edit

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*baba ęga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 108

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*baba ęga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 108

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