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

apiary
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