Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zajęcь

Etymology
From an earlier (still reflected in Bulgarian and Macedonian), via progressive palatalization. Possibly inherited from, cognate with dial. 🇨🇬 < *zuojįkas (however, not 🇨🇬, which looks like a Slavic borrowing). Further origin uncertain:
 * Mladenov, Vasmer, Snoj: Perhaps from, akin to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< 🇨🇬). From the same root may also be 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * Löwenthal: From 🇨🇬 whence 🇨🇬 (possibly 🇨🇬). Dismissed by Vasmer.

Shares ending with 🇨🇬,, probably resultant from a k-extension over an older n-stem. Further attested in animal names: e.g. 🇨🇬,, dial. ; and in diminutives: e.g. 🇨🇬, <,  + *-ęč-ьko.

Noun

 * 1) rabbit, hare

Alternative forms
It is likely that such a form did not exist, where a morphological replacement of the suffix simply took place.

Descendants

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