Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bьčela

Etymology
, from, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 (< ), 🇨🇬 (< ), 🇨🇬. Baltic cognates (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) would in that case render the forms as  and.

The contains the only Old Church Slavonic instance of  but since the form  is just as rare, it is impossible to precisely reconstruct the late Proto-Slavic form of this word on the basis of Old Church Slavonic. Since this Proto-Slavic word was an oxytone, none of the descendant languages retain a reflex of the medial weak jer.

Alternatively (obsolete) explained as a deverbative of and reconstructed as. A bee is, therefore, the one that makes noise.

Noun

 * 1)  bee

Descendants

 * East Slavic:
 * South Slavic:
 * Old
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 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * South Slavic:
 * Old
 * West Slavic:
 * Bohemian :
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Old
 * West Slavic:
 * Bohemian :
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * West Slavic:
 * Bohemian :
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 * Sorbian:
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 * Pomeranian:
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 * Sorbian:
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