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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čarodějь

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 *čarъ +‎ *-dějь, the second element being derived from *dějati (“to do”).

Noun

*čarodějь m

  1. wizard, magician, sorcerer

Inflection

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Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: чародѣи (čaroděi)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: чародѣи (čaroděi)
    • Bulgarian: чародей (čarodej)
    • Slovene: čarodèj (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čarodějь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 24
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