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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫžь
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This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ángis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”).
Baltic cognates include Old Prussian angis, Lithuanian angìs, Latvian odze. Indo-European cognates include Latin anguis, Old High German unc and Old Armenian աւձ (awj).
Inflection
Declension of *ǫ̃žь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *ǫ̃žь | *ǭžà | *ǭžì |
| Accusative | *ǫ̃žь | *ǭžà | *ǭžę̇̀ |
| Genitive | *ǭžà | *ǭžù | *ǫ̃žь |
| Locative | *ǭžì | *ǭžù | *ǫ̃žixъ |
| Dative | *ǭžù | *ǭžèma | *ǫ̃žemъ |
| Instrumental | *ǭžь̀mь, *ǭžèmь* | *ǭžèma | *ǫ̃ži |
| Vocative | *ǫžu | *ǭžà | *ǭžì |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: въжек (vǎžek, “a kind of a grey non-venomous snake”) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian: u̯õš (“a kind of a black snake”) (Chakavian)
- Slovene: ọ́ž (“a grass snake”) (tonal orthography), vọ̑ž, gọ́ž (“snake”) (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “уж”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- “angis”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ǫ̃žь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 388: “m. jo (b) ‘snake’”
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