смецце

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• сьме́цьце (sʹmjécʹcje) — Taraškievica orthography
• смяццё (smjaccjó) — regional
• сьмяцьцё (sʹmjacʹcjó) — Taraškievica orthography

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъmetьje. Cognate with dialectal Russian сме́тье (smétʹje), Ukrainian сміття́ (smittjá), Polish śmiecie, Czech smetí, Slovak smeť, Upper Sorbian smjeće, Serbo-Croatian smèće, Slovene smetjè. By surface analysis, с- (s-) +‎ мет- (mjet-) +‎ -ье (-ʹje).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲmʲet͡sʲːe]

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Noun

сме́цце • (smjéccje) n inan (genitive сме́цця, uncountable)

1. garbage, rubbish, trash

Declension

Declension of сме́цце (inan sg-only soft neut-form accent-a)

	singular
nominative	сме́цце smjéccje
genitive	сме́цця smjéccja
dative	сме́ццю smjéccju
accusative	сме́цце smjéccje
instrumental	сме́ццем smjéccjem
locative	сме́цці smjécci

References

• “смецце” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сметье”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress