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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ěďa

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 *ěda/*ědъ/*ědь (“food”) +‎ *-ja or *ě̀sti (“to eat”) +‎ *-ja. According to Trubachyov: inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ḗˀdjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édyeh₂ (“food related, edible”), from *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Compare Lithuanian ė́džia (“horse food”) and Sanskrit अद्य (ādyá, “edible”), Latin inedia (“fasting”).

Noun

*ě̀ďa f[1][2]

  1. eating, eating activity
  2. what is eaten, food, nourishment

Declension
Declension of *ě̀ďa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *ě̀ďa *ě̀ďi *ě̀ďę̇
genitive *ě̀ďę̇ *ě̀ďu *ě̀ďь
dative *ě̀ďī *ě̀ďama *ě̀ďāmъ
accusative *ě̀ďǫ *ě̀ďi *ě̀ďę̇
instrumental *ě̀ďējǫ, *ě̀ďǭ* *ě̀ďama *ě̀ďāmī
locative *ě̀ďī *ě̀ďu *ě̀ďāsъ
vocative *ě̀ďe *ě̀ďi *ě̀ďę̇
* 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).
Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ed-‎ (0 c, 3 e)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *ѣжа (*ěža)
      • Old Ruthenian: *ѣжа (*jěža)
      • Belarusian: е́жа (jéža)
      • Ukrainian: ї́жа (jíža); є́жа (jéža) (dialectal)
    • Russian: е́жа (jéža) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      • Church Slavonic: ꙗжда (jažda)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: је̏ђа, језа (dialectal)
      Latin script: jȅđa, jeza (dialectal)
    • Slovene: jéja (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • ⇒ Czech: objeza, objedza (dialectal)
    • Old Polish: jedza
      • Polish: jedza (dialectal)
    • Slovak: jedza (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Slovak: objedza
    • Sorbian:

References
  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ědja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 40
  2. Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1991), “ěďa”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 6 (e! – ěždžь), Wrocław: Ossolineum, →ISBN, page 129

Further reading
  • Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1985), “е́жа”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 3 (га! – інчэ́), Minsk: Navuka i technika
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