Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děža
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *daiźjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoyǵʰyeh₂, from *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead”).
Noun
*dě̄žà f[1]
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *dě̄žà | *dě̃ži | *dě̄žę̇̀ |
| genitive | *dě̄žę̇̀ | *dě̄žù | *dě̃žь |
| dative | *dě̄žì | *dě̄žàma | *dě̄žàmъ |
| accusative | *dě̄žǫ̀ | *dě̃ži | *dě̄žę̇̀ |
| instrumental | *dě̄žèjǫ, *dě̃žǫ** | *dě̄žàma | *dě̄žàmī |
| locative | *dě̄žì | *dě̄žù | *dě̄žàsъ, *dě̄žàxъ* |
| vocative | *děže | *dě̃ži | *dě̄žę̇̀ |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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).
Related terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: дѣжа (děža)
- Serbo-Croatian: (“milking-tub”) (archaic, regional)
- Cyrillic script: ди́жа, ди̑жва, дижица, де̑жа
- Latin script: díža, dȋžva, dižica, dȇža
- Slovene: dẹ́ža, díža (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “дежа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*děža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 23
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dě̄žà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 106: “f. jā (b)”