snъxà

snъxà Grammatical information: f. ā Accent paradigm: b/c Proto-Slavic meaning: `daughter-in-law'

Church Slavic:

snъxa (SerbCS) `daughter-in-law' [f ā]

Russian:

snoxá `(father's) daughter-in-law' [f ā], snoxú [Accs]

Old Russian:

snъxa `daughter-in-law' [f ā]

Czech:

snacha `daughter-in-law' [f ā] \{1\}

Serbo-Croatian:

snàha `daughter-in-law' [f ā];

Čak. snahȁ (Novi) `daughter-in-law' [f ā], snahȕ [Accs];

Kajk. snīehȍ (Bednja), snȋeho [Accs], snehoū [Accs]

Slovene:

snáha `daughter-in-law, bride' [f ā];

snéha `daughter-in-law, bride' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

snaxá `daughter-in-law, sister-in-law' [f ā]

Indo-European reconstruction: snus-ó- \{2\}

Comments: The form *snus-ó- was replaced by *snus-eh₂- in many languages.

Other cognates:

Skt. snuṣā́- (AV+) `daughter-in-law' [f];

Gk. νυός `daughter-in-law' [f];

Lat. nurus `daughter-in-law' [f];

OE snoru `daughter-in-law' [f]

Notes:

\{1\} A borrowing from Serbo-Croatian. The original designations synová and nevěsta (cf. Slk. nevesta) still occur in dialects.