свѣтꙑчь

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *světъ (“light”).

Noun

свѣтꙑчь (světyčĭ) m

torch (stick with flame at one end)
- Аѳан. Никит. 335:
  А ѣздять на конехъ да въ доспѣсехъ, да у всѣхъ по свѣтычю.

Descendants

Russian: светоч (svetoč)

References

Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “свѣтꙑчь”, 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 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 297

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