Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/roďanica

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

From *roďanъ +‎ *-ica?

Noun

*roďanica f

1. (originally) she who was born
2. (Slavic mythology, usually in the plural) rozhanitsa (Slavic spirit of the fate)

Declension

Declension of *roďanica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*roďanica	*roďanici	*roďanicę̇
genitive	*roďanicę̇	*roďanicu	*roďanicь
dative	*roďanici	*roďanicama	*roďanicamъ
accusative	*roďanicǫ	*roďanici	*roďanicę̇
instrumental	*roďanicejǫ, *roďanicǫ**	*roďanicama	*roďanicami
locative	*roďanici	*roďanicu	*roďanicasъ, *roďanicaxъ*
vocative	*roďanice	*roďanici	*roďanicę̇

^* -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: рожданица (roždanica), рожаница (rožanica)
    • Belarusian: ро́жаніца (róžanica)
    • Russian: роженица (roženica), рожаница (rožanica)
    • Ukrainian: рожаница (rožanyca)
  • → Polish: rodzanica, rożanica (learned)
  • → Czech: rožanica (learned)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: рожданица (roždanica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: rođenica

    Cyrillic script: рођеница

  • Slovene: rojeníca (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2006), “ро́жаніца”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 11 (раб – сая́н), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN