Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pasěka

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

• *pasěkъ

Etymology

From *pa- +‎ *sěkti +‎ *-a.

Noun

*pasěka f

1. apiary
2. glade, clearing

Declension

Declension of *pasěka (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pasěka	*pasěcě	*pasěky
genitive	*pasěky	*pasěku	*pasěkъ
dative	*pasěcě	*pasěkama	*pasěkamъ
accusative	*pasěkǫ	*pasěcě	*pasěky
instrumental	*pasěkojǫ, *pasěkǫ**	*pasěkama	*pasěkami
locative	*pasěcě	*pasěku	*pasěkasъ, *pasěkaxъ*
vocative	*pasěko	*pasěcě	*pasěky

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: па́сѣка (pásěka)
    • Old Ruthenian: па́сека (páseka), пасѣка (pasěka), пасика (pasika)
      • Belarusian: па́сека (pásjeka); па́сіка (pásika), па́сяка (pásjaka) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: па́сїка (pásjika)
      • Ukrainian: па́сіка (pásika); па́сека (páseka) (dialectal)
    • Russian: па́сека (páseka)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пасјека, пасека, пасика

    Latin script: pasjeka, paseka, pasika

  • Slovene: pàseka, pàsika
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pasěka
    • Czech: paseka
  • Old Polish: pasieka
    • Polish: pasieka; pašeka (dialectal)
  • Old Slovak: paseka
    • Slovak: paseka
  • Slovincian: pasėka
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pasyki pl

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