Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ocьtъ

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.

From Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍄 (akeit) or 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐍄 (akēt), ultimately from Latin acētum (“vinegar”), from aceō (“to be sour”). Compare Slovene kis (“vinegar”), Upper Sorbian kisało (“vinegar”) (see *kysati, *kysnǫti, *kysěti, *kyselъ).

*ocьtъ m

1. vinegar

• *ocьtěnъ
• *ocьtiti (“to fill with vinegar”)
• *ocьtovъ

According to ЭССЯ, East Slavic forms are borrowing from Polish

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: оцьтъ (ocĭtŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: оцетъ (ocet), оцотъ (ocot)
      • Belarusian: во́цат (vócat)
      • Ukrainian: о́цет (ócet)
    • Russian: о́цет (ócet) (archaic; biblical)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: оцьтъ (ocĭtŭ)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Bulgarian: оце́т (océt)
  • Macedonian: оцет (ocet)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀цат

    Latin script: òcat

  • Slovene: ócet
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ocet
    • Czech: ocet
  • Kashubian: òct
  • Old Polish: ocet
    • Polish: ocet, u̯ecet
  • Old Slovak: ocot, vocot, vocet
    • Pannonian Rusyn: оцет (ocet)
    • Slovak: ocot, ocet
  • Slovincian: wôct

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: oțet
  • → Hungarian: ecet

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “оцет”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “уксус”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 288
• Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*ocьtъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 11