Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/němьcь

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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

From *němъ (mute) +‎ *-ьcь. The word therefore meant "someone unable to speak "; however, some hypotheses hold this was an observation on the relative stoic personalities of some Germanic tribesmen.

Noun

*němьcь m[1]

  1. foreigner, non-Slav
  2. specifically, a member of the Germanic peoples

Declension

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Descendants

  • Non-Slavic:
    • German: Nimptsch (surname with many variants)
    • Hungarian: német
    • Ottoman Turkish: نمچه (nemçe) (see there for further descendants)
    • Persian: نمسا (namsâ)
    • Romanian: neamț

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*němьcь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 103