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Old East Slavic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʑɔnʊkɑ/→/ˈʑɔnʊka/→/ˈʑɔːnka/
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈʑɔnʊkɑ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈʑɔnʊka/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈʑɔːnka/
Noun
жонъка (žonŭka) f
- diminutive of жена (žena)
Declension
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