Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bajačь

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 *bajati +‎ *-ačь.

Noun

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*bajačь m

  1. witch doctor, shaman

Declension

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Descendants

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  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: бая́ч (bajáč)
    • Macedonian: бајач (bajač)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ба̀ја̑ч
      Latin script: bàjȃč
  • West Slavic:

References

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bajačь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 137