Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orǫžьje

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 *orǫga / *orǫžь +‎ *-ьje (“collective suffix”). According to Derksen, however, from the root in Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

Noun

*orǫžьje n

Originally "set of objects for some activity"

weapon, arm

Declension

Declension of *orǫžьje (soft o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*orǫžьje	*orǫžьji	*orǫžьja
genitive	*orǫžьja	*orǫžьju	*orǫžьjь
dative	*orǫžьju	*orǫžьjema	*orǫžьjemъ
accusative	*orǫžьje	*orǫžьji	*orǫžьja
instrumental	orǫžьjьmь, orǫžьjemь^*	*orǫžьjema	*orǫžьji
locative	*orǫžьji	*orǫžьju	*orǫžьjixъ
vocative	*orǫžьje	*orǫžьji	*orǫžьja

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

*orǫžьnъ
- *orǫžьnikъ / *orǫžьnica
*orǫžiti
- *orǫžati

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: орѫжие (orǫžije)
  - Old Ruthenian: оружьє (oružʹje), оружїє (oružije)
    - Belarusian: ружжо́ (ružžó)
  - Russian: ружьё (ružʹjó), (dialectal) оружьё (oružʹjó)
    - Taimyr Pidgin Russian: урусé (urusé)
- Old Novgorodian: орѫжьѥ (orǫžĭje)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: орѫжиѥ (orǫžije)
  - Bulgarian: оръ́жие (orǎ́žie)
  - Macedonian: о́ружје (óružje)
  - → Old East Slavic: орѫжие (orǫžije) (see there for further descendants)
- Serbo-Croatian: о̀рӯжје, òrūžje, оружђе, oružđe
- Slovene: orožje
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: oružie
  - Czech: oruží
- Polish: oręże, horęże
- Slovak: oružie

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ружье”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “оружие”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 606
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2002), “*obrǫžьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 29 (*obpovědati – *obsojьnica), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 123