Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čarodějь

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

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Etymology

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From *čarъ +‎ *-dějь, the second element being derived from *dějati (to do).

Noun

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*čarodějь m

  1. wizard, magician, sorcerer

Inflection

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čarodějь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 24