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Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *žena + Proto-Slavic *-tva.
Akin to Czech ženitba, Bulgarian женитба (ženitba), Macedonian женидба (ženidba)
Serbo-Croatian женидба, Kashubian Żenba, Slovak ženba.
Probably connected with Sanskrit जनित्व (janitva).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʑɛˈnitʋɑ/→/ʑɛˈnʲitʋa/→/ʑɛˈnʲitʋa/
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛˈnitʋɑ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛˈnʲitʋa/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ʑɛˈnʲitʋa/
Noun
женитва (ženitva) f
- marriage
- въ мироу и в батьствѣ и въ женитвѣ
- wedding
Declension
Declension of женитва (hard a-stem)
Descendants
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “женитва”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 858