свѣтꙑчь

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *světъ (“light”).

Noun

свѣтꙑчь (světyčĭ) m

1. torch (stick with flame at one end)
   • Аѳан. Никит. 335:

     А ѣздять на конехъ да въ доспѣсехъ, да у всѣхъ по свѣтычю.

Descendants

• Belarusian: све́тач (svjétač)
• Russian: све́точ (svétoč)
• Ukrainian: сві́точ (svítoč)

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “свѣтꙑчь”, 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 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 297