Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/samьcь

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 *samъ (“self, alone”) +‎ *-ьcь.

Noun

*samьcь m (feminine *samica or *samъka)

1. single man or male animal
2. man

Declension

Declension of *samьcь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*samьcь	*samьca	*samьci
genitive	*samьca	*samьcu	*samьcь
dative	*samьcu	*samьcema	*samьcemъ
accusative	*samьcь	*samьca	*samьcę̇
instrumental	*samьcьmь, *samьcemь*	*samьcema	*samьci
locative	*samьci	*samьcu	*samьcixъ
vocative	*samьče	*samьca	*samьci

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *самьць (*samĭcĭ)
    • Middle Russian: саме́цъ (saméc)
      • Russian: саме́ц (saméc)
        • →? Bulgarian: са́ме́ц (sáméc)
    • Old Ruthenian: саме́цъ (samécʹ), саме́ць (samécʹ), соме́цъ (somécʹ)
      • Belarusian: саме́ц (samjéc)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: саме́ць (samécʹ), сaмeц (samec)
      • Ukrainian: саме́ць (samécʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: самец (samec)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: са́мац

    Latin script: sámac

  • Slovene: sámec (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: samc
  • Old Czech: samec
    • Czech: samec
  • Old Polish: samiec
    • Polish: samiec
    • Silesian: samiec
  • Polabian: somăc
  • Slovak: samec
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: sanc, samc

Further reading

• Polański, Kazimierz (1993) “somǝc”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), numbers 5 (sahi – ťüzǝc), Warszawa: Energeia, page 742
• Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2006), “саме́ц”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 11 (раб – сая́н), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 308
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “самець”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 172
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “саме́ц”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 137
• Shaposhnikov, A. K. (2010) “самец”, in Этимологический словарь современного русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Contemporary Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2: (Начать – Я), Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, →ISBN, page 298