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Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *svěťa. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic свѣща (svěšta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʋeːˈt͡ɕɑ/→/sʋʲeːˈt͡ɕa/→/sʋʲeːˈt͡ɕa/
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /sʋeːˈt͡ɕɑ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /sʋʲeːˈt͡ɕa/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /sʋʲeːˈt͡ɕa/
Noun
свѣча (svěča) f
- candle
Declension
Declension of свѣча (soft a-stem)
Descendants
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “свѣча”, 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), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 301
- Bogatova, G. A., editor (1996), “свѣча”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), numbers 23 (съ – сдымка), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 155