Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/baba ęga
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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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
*bàba ęga f[1]
Descendants[edit]
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: Ба́ба Ѧга́ (Bába Ęgá), Ѧга́ Ба́ба (Ęgá Bába)
- Old Ruthenian: Ба́ба Ѧга́ (Bába Jahá)
- Belarusian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jahá)
- Ukrainian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jahá); Язіба́ба (Jazibába) (dialectal)
- Russian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá)
- → Bulgarian: Ба́ба Я́га (Bába Jága)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovene: Jaga baba
- → Polish: Baba Jaga, Baba-Jaga
- Old Ruthenian: Ба́ба Ѧга́ (Bába Jahá)
- Old East Slavic: Ба́ба Ѧга́ (Bába Ęgá), Ѧга́ Ба́ба (Ęgá Bába)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: Baba Jaga; ježibaba
- Kashubian: jãdzëbaba
- Polish: Baba Jędza
- Slovak: Baba Jaga; ježibaba; jedžibaba, jenzibaba, jendžibaba, jendžibaba (dialectal)
- → Ukrainian: инджиба́ба (yndžybába) (dialectal)
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: Baba Iaga
References[edit]
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*baba ęga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 108