Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/guja

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

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Noun

*guja f

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Declension

Declension of *guja (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*guja	*guji	*guję̇
genitive	*guję̇	*guju	*gujь
dative	*guji	*gujama	*gujamъ
accusative	*gujǫ	*guji	*guję̇
instrumental	gujejǫ, gujǫ^**	*gujama	*gujami
locative	*guji	*guju	gujasъ, gujaxъ^*
vocative	*guje	*guji	*guję̇

^* -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).

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: гу́я (gúja, “snake”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: гу́ја (“snake, helminth”)
  
  Latin script: gúja
West Slavic:
- Czech: dial. huja (“gut, intestine, bowel; sausage”) (> hujec (“pig stomach stuffed with minced meat”))

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*guja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 168