женъка

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Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

жонъка (žonŭka)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ženъka.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʑɛnʊkɑ/→/ˈʑɛnʊka/→/ˈʑɛːnka/

(ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈʑɛnʊkɑ/
(ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈʑɛnʊka/
(ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈʑɛːnka/

Hyphenation: же‧нъ‧ка

Noun

женъка (ženŭka) f

diminutive of жена (žena)

Declension

Declension of женъка (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	женъка ženŭka	женъцѣ ženŭcě	женъкꙑ ženŭky
Genitive	женъкꙑ ženŭky	женъку ženŭku	женъкъ ženŭkŭ
Dative	женъцѣ ženŭcě	женъкама ženŭkama	женъкамъ ženŭkamŭ
Accusative	женъкѫ ženŭkǫ	женъцѣ ženŭcě	женъкꙑ ženŭky
Instrumental	женъкоѭ ženŭkojǫ	женъкама ženŭkama	женъками ženŭkami
Locative	женъцѣ ženŭcě	женъку ženŭku	женъкахъ ženŭkaxŭ
Vocative	женъко ženŭko	женъцѣ ženŭcě	женъкꙑ ženŭky

Descendants

Old Ruthenian: жо́нка (žónka), жѡ́нка (žốnka), жу́нка (žúnka), жи́нка (žínka), же́нка (žénka)
- Belarusian: жо́нка (žónka); (dialectal) жынка (žynka)
- Carpathian Rusyn: жу́нка (žúnka)
- Ukrainian: жі́нка (žínka); (dialectal) жо́нка (žónka), жу́нка (žúnka), жи́нка (žýnka)
Russian: (dialectal) жёнка (žónka)

References

Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “женъка”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 859

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