Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/byčę

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 *bỹkъ (“bull”) +‎ *-ę.

Noun

*byčę n^[1]^[2]^[3]

young bull, calf

Declension

Declension of *byčę (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*byčę	*byčę̀ti	*byčę̀tā
genitive	*byčę̀te	*byčę̀tu	*byčę̀tъ
dative	*byčę̀ti	*byčę̀tьma	*byčę̀tьmъ
accusative	*byčę	*byčę̀ti	*byčę̀tā
instrumental	*byčę̀tьmь	*byčę̀tьma	*byčę̀tȳ
locative	*byčę̀te	*byčę̀tu	*byčę̀tьxъ
vocative	*byčę	*byčę̀ti	*byčę̀tā

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *бꙑчѧ (*byčę)
  - Old Ruthenian: быча́ (byčá)
    - Ukrainian: бича́ (byčá)
  - Russian: бы́ча (býča) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: биче́ (bičé)
- Macedonian: биче (biče)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: бѝче
  
  Latin script: bìče
West Slavic:
- Czech: byče
- Old Polish: byczę
- Slovak: býča (dialectal)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*byčę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 146
^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “byčę”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 473
^ Klotz, Emanuel (2017) “*bū̱čin͘ «byčę»”, in Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in German), 1st edition, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN, page 78

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*byčę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 146

[2] Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “byčę”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 473

[3] Klotz, Emanuel (2017) “*bū̱čin͘ «byčę»”, in Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in German), 1st edition, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN, page 78

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