Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rězъ

From Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *rēˀźas, from Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵós, from Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵ-. Cognate with Lithuanian rėžas (“cut”).

*rě̑zъ m[1]

1. cut, scratch
2. edge, blade

   → (by extension) knife, cutting tool

   Synonyms: *ostrьje, *sěčivo

• *rězь (“carving, acute pain”)
• *rězati (“to cut”)
• *rězenь (“slice”)
• *raziti (“to pound, to astound”)
  • *poraženьje (“defeat”)
  • *sъraženьje (“combat”)
• *zaraza (“infectious disease”)

• *rězъka (diminutive)
• *prorězъ (“slit, notch”)
• *narězъ (“ripple, groove”)
• *perrězъ (“incision”)
• *orzrězъ (“section”)
• *otъrězъka (“scrap”)
• *jьzrězъka (“snip, cut piece”)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: рез (rez)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: рѣзъ (rězŭ)
  • Bulgarian: рез (rez, “blade, edge”), dial. ряз (rjaz)
  • Macedonian: рез (rez, “edge”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ре̑з

    Latin script: rȇz

  • Slovene: rẹ̑z
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: řěz
    • Czech: řez
  • Polish: rzaz
  • Slovak: rez?

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “рез”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (2002), “рез”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 210
• Snoj, Marko (2016), “rẹ̑z”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si