Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bičь

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

Analysable as *bìti (“to beat”) +‎ *-čь.

Noun

*bičь m

1. whip

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бичь (bičĭ)
    • Belarusian: біч (bič)
    • Russian: бич (bič)
    • Ukrainian: бич (byč)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: бичь (bičĭ)
  • Bulgarian: бич (bič)
  • Macedonian: бич (bič)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: би̏ч

    Latin script: bȉč

  • Slovene: bìč

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bič
  • Polish: bicz
  • Slovak: bič
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bic
    • Upper Sorbian: bič

• → German: Peitsche
• → Romanian: bici

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bičь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 02 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 94
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бич”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress