Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pasěkъ

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

Alternative forms

• *pasěka

Etymology

From *pa- +‎ *sěkti +‎ *-ъ.

Noun

*pasěkъ m

1. apiary
2. glade, clearing

Declension

Declension of *pasěkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pasěkъ	*pasěka	*pasěci
genitive	*pasěka	*pasěku	*pasěkъ
dative	*pasěku	*pasěkoma	*pasěkomъ
accusative	*pasěkъ	*pasěka	*pasěky
instrumental	*pasěkъmь, *pasěkomь*	*pasěkoma	*pasěky
locative	*pasěcě	*pasěku	*pasěcěxъ
vocative	*pasěče	*pasěka	*pasěci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *па́сѣкъ (*pásěkŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: *па́сѣкъ (*pásěk), па́сикъ (pásik)
      • Belarusian: пасік (pasik), па́сек (pásjek) (dialectal)
    • Russian: па́сек (pásek), пасёк (pasjók) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пасик

    Latin script: pasik

• West Slavic:
  • Slovak: pasek (dialectal)

Further reading

• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2018), “*pasěka / *pasěkъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 41 (*pala – *pažьnъ(јь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 159