женитва

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žena + Proto-Slavic *-tva.

Akin to Czech ženitba, Bulgarian женитба (ženitba), Macedonian женидба (ženidba) Serbo-Croatian женидба, Kashubian Żenba, Slovak ženba. Probably connected with Sanskrit जनित्व (janitva).

Noun

женитва (ženitva) f

marriage
въ мироу и в батьствѣ и въ женитвѣ
wedding

Related terms

женитвиѥ (ženitvije)

Descendants

Belarusian: жаніцьба (žanicʹba)
Russian: женитьба (ženitʹba)
Rusyn: женитва (ženytva)

References

Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “женитва”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 858

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