мънихъ

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Moravian (compare Old Czech mnich), from Old High German munih, from Proto-West Germanic *munik, from Late Latin monicus, from Latin monachus, from Ancient Greek μονᾰχός (monakhós, “solitary, single”).

Compare Old Czech mnich, Old Polish mnich, archaic Bulgarian мних (mnih), archaic Serbo-Croatian мни̏х／mnȉh, Slovene meníh, archaic mníh, Upper Sorbian mnich, Lower Sorbian mnich.

Noun

мънихъ • (mŭnixŭ) m

  1. (hapax) monk
    Synonyms: чръньць (črŭnĭcĭ), чрьноризьцъ (črĭnorizĭcŭ), (figuratively) братръ (bratrŭ)
    • 11th century, Euchologium Sinaiticum (in Glagolitic), 57b13:
      мол‹итва› над‹ъ› оумеръшиим‹ъ› • свѧщ‹е›никомь • ли мⸯнихомъ
      mol‹itva› nad‹ŭ› umerŭšiim‹ŭ› • svęšt‹e›nikomĭ • li mⸯnixomŭ
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension
Declension of мънихъ (o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative мънихъ
mŭnixŭ		 мъниха
mŭnixa		 мъниси
mŭnisi
genitive мъниха
mŭnixa		 мънихоу
mŭnixu		 мънихъ
mŭnixŭ
dative мънихоу
mŭnixu		 мънихома
mŭnixoma		 мънихомъ
mŭnixomŭ
accusative мънихъ
mŭnixŭ		 мъниха
mŭnixa		 мънихꙑ
mŭnixy
instrumental мънихомъ
mŭnixomŭ		 мънихома
mŭnixoma		 мънихꙑ
mŭnixy
locative мънисѣ
mŭnisě		 мънихоу
mŭnixu		 мънисѣхъ
mŭnisěxŭ
vocative мънише
mŭniše		 мъниха
mŭnixa		 мъниси
mŭnisi

Derived terms
adjectives

Descendants
  • → Old East Slavic: мнихъ (mnixŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: мнихъ (mnix)
      • Belarusian: мніх (mnix)
      • Ukrainian: мних (mnyx)
    • Russian: мних (mnix)

References
  • “мънихъ”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2024
  • Erhart, Adolf, editor (1999), “mъnixъ”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 9 (mrъkati – obrěsti), Prague: Academia, →ISBN, page 512
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