Old Church Slavonic etymology in numbers
Counted from the etymologies of the 250 Old Church Slavonic entries in this dictionary, and recounted every few hours as entries are added. See also Old Church Slavonic words by origin.
Borrowed, inherited or formed
Each entry counted once: as borrowed if its etymology names a language it was taken from, else as inherited, else as formed within Old Church Slavonic.
- Borrowed 2% · 6 taken from another language
- Inherited 89% · 223 passed down from an ancestor of Old Church Slavonic
- Formed in Old Church Slavonic 8% · 20 compounds and derivatives of its own words
- Not traced yet 0% · 1 no etymology links yet
Ultimate origins by language family
Where the 230 traced words end up when their etymologies are followed back as far as they go, from entry to entry, grouped into families and the branches of Indo-European.
- Balto-Slavic 223 · 97% Proto-Slavic 222 · Old Church Slavonic 1
- Hellenic 4 · 2% Ancient Greek 4
- Germanic 2 · 1% Gothic 1 · Proto-Germanic 1
- Unclassified 1 · 0% Bulgar 1
Words other languages took from Old Church Slavonic
2 entries of other languages in this dictionary were borrowed from Old Church Slavonic or its earlier stages.
Most prolific roots
The words that the most Old Church Slavonic entries go back to, at the far end of their etymologies.
- 2 Proto-Slavic *bolgъ → благъ, блаженъ
- 2 Proto-Slavic *byti → бꙑти, прѣбꙑти
- 2 Proto-Slavic *gospodь → господьнь, господь
- 2 Proto-Slavic *pakъ → пакꙑ, паче
- 2 Proto-Slavic *slyšati → слꙑшати, оуслꙑшати
- 2 Proto-Slavic *sь → се, сь
- 2 Proto-Slavic *vezti → вести, привести
- 2 Proto-Slavic *věděti → оувѣдѣти, вѣдѣти
- 2 Proto-Slavic *žiti → житиѥ, жити
- 1 Proto-Slavic *(j)uže → оуже
- 1 Proto-Slavic *a → а
- 1 Proto-Slavic *abьje → абиѥ
- 1 Proto-Slavic *aviti → авити
- 1 Proto-Slavic *azъ → азъ
- 1 Proto-Slavic *aťe → аще
Longest journeys
The Old Church Slavonic words whose etymologies pass through the most languages, followed from entry to entry.