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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫžь

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *ángis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”). Baltic cognates include Old Prussian angis, Lithuanian angìs, Latvian odze. Indo-European cognates include Latin anguis, Old High German unc and Old Armenian աւձ (awj).

Noun

*ǫ̃žь m[1]

  1. snake

Inflection
Declension of *ǫ̃žь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)
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:
    • Old East Slavic: ѫжь (ǫžĭ), ужь (užĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: ужъ (už), вужъ (vuž)
        • Belarusian: вуж (vuž)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: уж (už)
        • Ukrainian: вуж (vuž), уж (už)
      • Russian: уж (už)
      • →? Estonian: uss
  • 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
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ǫ̃žь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 388: “m. jo (b) ‘snake’”
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