жьньць

Old East Slavic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʑɪˈnɪt͡sʲɪ/→/ʑɪˈnʲɪt͡sʲɪ/→/ˈʑnʲɛt͡sʲ/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ʑɪˈnɪt͡sʲɪ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ʑɪˈnʲɪt͡sʲɪ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈʑnʲɛt͡sʲ/

• Hyphenation: жь‧нь‧ць

Noun

жьньць (žĭnĭcĭ)

1. reaper (person who reaps)

Declension

Declension of жьньць (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	жьньць žĭnĭcĭ	жьньца žĭnĭca	жьньци žĭnĭci
Genitive	жьньца žĭnĭca	жьньцу žĭnĭcu	жьньць žĭnĭcĭ
Dative	жьньцу žĭnĭcu	жьньцема žĭnĭcema	жьньцемъ žĭnĭcemŭ
Accusative	жьньць žĭnĭcĭ	жьньца žĭnĭca	жьньцѣ žĭnĭcě
Instrumental	жьньцьмь žĭnĭcĭmĭ	жьньцема žĭnĭcema	жьньци žĭnĭci
Locative	жьньци žĭnĭci	жьньцу žĭnĭcu	жьньцихъ žĭnĭcixŭ
Vocative	жьньче žĭnĭče	жьньца žĭnĭca	жьньци žĭnĭci

Descendants

Note that modern Russian and Belarusian do not reflect Havlík's law, having normalized [жьньцъ] to [жьнецъ].

The Belarusian dictionary of Bajkoŭ and Nekraševič (1925), however, contains the now archaic plural of жнец (žnjec) — жанцы́ (žancý)

• Old Ruthenian: жнецъ (žnecʹ) (genitive женца (ženca))
  • Belarusian: жнец (žnjec) (genitive жняца́ (žnjacá))
  • Carpathian Rusyn: жнець (žnecʹ) (genitive женця́ (žencjá))
  • Ukrainian: жнець (žnecʹ) (genitive женця́ (žencjá))
• Russian: жнец (žnec) (genitive жнеца́ (žnecá))

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “жьньць”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 887