жьньць

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Old East Slavic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɪˈnɪt͡sʲɪ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɪˈnʲɪt͡sʲɪ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈʑnʲɛt͡sʲ/
  • Hyphenation: жь‧нь‧ць

Noun[edit]

жьньць (žĭnĭcĭ)

  1. reaper (person who reaps)

Declension[edit]

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Descendants[edit]

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)

References[edit]

  • 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