доброволєц
Pannonian Rusyn
Etymology
Borrowed from Carpathian Rusyn доброво́лець (dobrovólecʹ), or equivalently from добровольни (dobrovolʹni) + -ец (-ec). Compare Macedonian and Russian доброволец (dobrovolec), Serbo-Croatian добровољац / dobrovoljac and Ukrainian доброво́лець (dobrovólecʹ). Likely unrelated to dialectal Slovak dobrovolec (“rascal, miscreant, scoundrel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dɔbrɔˈvɔʎɛt͡s]
- Rhymes: -ɔʎɛt͡s
- Hyphenation: до‧бро‧во‧лєц
Noun
доброволєц (dobrovoljec) m pers (feminine equivalent доброволька, relational adjective доброволєцки)
- (especially military) volunteer
- Near-synonym: волонтер (volonter)
- войнови доброволєц ― vojnovi dobrovoljec ― war volunteer
Usage notes
- Note that unlike demonyms ending in -лєц (-ljec) such as Портуґалєц (Portugaljec), the root for oblique forms for this term is -льц- (-lʹc-) rather than -лц- (-lc-).
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | доброволєц (dobrovoljec) | добровольци (dobrovolʹci) |
| genitive | добровольца (dobrovolʹca) | добровольцох (dobrovolʹcox) |
| dative | добровольцови (dobrovolʹcovi) | добровольцом (dobrovolʹcom) |
| accusative | добровольца (dobrovolʹca) | добровольцох (dobrovolʹcox) |
| instrumental | добровольцом (dobrovolʹcom) | добровольцами (dobrovolʹcami) |
| locative | добровольцови (dobrovolʹcovi) | добровольцох (dobrovolʹcox) |
| vocative | добровольцу (dobrovolʹcu) | добровольци (dobrovolʹci) |
References
- Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M. (1995), “добровољац”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (А – Њ), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 223
- Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M.; Timko-Djitko, O. (2010), “доброволєц”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
- Fejsa, M.; Šlemender, M.; Čelʹovski, S. (2022), “volunteer”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 365