Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫžь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ángis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”). Baltic cognates include Old Prussian angis, Lithuanian angi̇̀s, Latvian odze. Indo-European cognates include Latin anguis, Old High German unc and Old Armenian աւձ (awj).
Noun
*ǫ̃žь m[1]
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *ǫ̃žь | *ǭžà | *ǭžì |
| genitive | *ǭžà | *ǭžù | *ǫ̃žь |
| dative | *ǭžù | *ǭžèma | *ǫ̃žemъ |
| accusative | *ǫ̃žь | *ǭžà | *ǭžę̇̀ |
| instrumental | *ǭžь̀mь, *ǭžèmь* | *ǭžèma | *ǫ̃ži |
| locative | *ǭžì | *ǭžù | *ǫ̃žixъ |
| 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:
- Cyrillic script: ужак (“a legless, snake-like lizard”), гуж (Shtokavian)
- Latin script: 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 Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 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’”