Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolěznь

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

By surface analysis, *bolěti +‎ *-znь.

Noun

*bolěznь f[1]

  1. sickness, disease

Inflection

Declension of *bolěznь (i-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *bolěznь *bolězni *bolězni
genitive *bolězni *bolěznьju, *bolězňu* *bolěznьjь, *bolězni*
dative *bolězni *bolěznьma *bolěznьmъ
accusative *bolěznь *bolězni *bolězni
instrumental *bolěznьjǫ, *bolězňǫ* *bolěznьma *bolěznьmi
locative *bolězni *bolěznьju, *bolězňu* *bolěznьxъ
vocative *bolězni *bolězni *bolězni

* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: болѣзнь (bolěznĭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: болѣзнь (bolěznĭ)
      • Bulgarian: боле́зън (bolézǎn) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: бо̀лезан
      Latin script: bòlezan
    • Slovene: bolẹ̑zən (tonal orthography)

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bolěznь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 189
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.