Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zanovětь

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

Unclear. While formally and by the main meaning strain of Genisteae tribe plants closer to *za- +‎ *noviti (“to renew”) +‎ *-ětь, because cleaning the house with besoms from Cytisus scoparia makes the house appear new, or for some magical reason of starting a new month or the like, it may actually be *za- +‎ *navь (“dead man, corpse; evil spectre”) +‎ *-ětь, as broomrape is usually named as a death-bringer, see the translations of broomrape, occurring together with brooms because of parasitizing them and then possibly named together; though the meaning of broomrape is missing in the descendants of *zanovětь, this derivation also works with the noxious weed restharrow (Ononis). But in view of Finnish näive (“broomrape”) there may be a phono-semantic matching of Uralic. In either case, if originally *zanavětь, possibly reinterpreted as from *novъ (“new”) after the original referent stepped aside in favour of a new one.

Noun

*zanovětь m

1. broom (especially Cytisus); restharrow (Ononis)
2. (uncertain) broomrape (Orobanche)

Inflection

Declension of *zanovětь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*zanovětь	*zanověti	*zanovětьje, *zanověťe*
genitive	*zanověti	*zanovětьju, *zanověťu*	*zanovětьjь, *zanověti*
dative	*zanověti	*zanovětьma	*zanovětьmъ
accusative	*zanovětь	*zanověti	*zanověti
instrumental	*zanovětьmь	*zanovětьma	*zanovětьmi
locative	*zanověti	*zanovětьju, *zanověťu*	*zanovětьxъ
vocative	*zanověti	*zanověti	*zanovětьje, *zanověťe*

^* 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:
  • Russian: зановец (zanovec), зановица (zanovica), зановит (zanovit), зановат (zanovat), зеноват (zenovat) (obsolete, Ukraine)
  • Ukrainian: зі́но́вать (zínóvatʹ), жарновець (žarnovecʹ) are standard, other forms include за́новать (zánovatʹ), за́новіть (zánovitʹ), зановить (zanovytʹ), зиновать (zynovatʹ), зиновник (zynovnyk), зіновник (zinovnyk), зіновка (zinovka), зановат (zanovat), зановец (zanovec), зановит (zanovyt)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: за́новец (zánovec), за́новет (zánovet), за́новит (zánovit)
  • Macedonian: зановет (zanovet), занофит (zanofit)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: за̏нове̄т, за̏новје̄т, за̏новије̄т, за̏наве̄т

    Latin script: zȁnovēt, zȁnovjēt, zȁnovijēt, zȁnavēt

  • Slovene: zánovet
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: janovít, janofít, janobít, janosít, janosiet, jinosít
    • Czech: janovec, žanovec, dialectally zanovec
  • Old Polish: zanowiec, zanowięć, żarnowiec, sianowiec, janosiet, janobyt, sianożęć, żnisiano
  • Polish: janowiec, żarnowiec, zanowiec, zanowiacz
    • → Belarusian: зяно́вец (zjanóvjec)
  • Slovak: žanovec, zanovec, zanovit, zánovec – notably for Galega officinalis and Melilotus officinalis
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: janowjeś, nowjeś, zanowjeś, zanowiś

    Upper Sorbian: žanowc

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: zanót

Further reading

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “за̀новец”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 600
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “зі́но́вать”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Miklosich, Franz (1886) “*zanovêtĭ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 399b
• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “janoẃeś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008, wrongly reconstructs *janovětь, which form is only valid in the Catholic Slavia after the personal name Jan, due to blossoming at Saint John's Eve
• Пујић, Саво (2013) Херцеговачка пчеларска лексика (Српски дијалектолошки зборник; 60)‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), Београд: Институт за српски језик Српске академије наука и уметности, page 693