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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/drozga
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrágʰ-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks. For *-g- > *-zg- compare *dręzgati.
Pan-Slavic range of the word evidenced by derived terms.
Declension
Declension of *drozga (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *drozga | *drozdzě | *drozgy |
genitive | *drozgy | *drozgu | *drozgъ |
dative | *drozdzě | *drozgama | *drozgamъ |
accusative | *drozgǫ | *drozdzě | *drozgy |
instrumental | *drozgojǫ, *drozgǫ** | *drozgama | *drozgami |
locative | *drozdzě | *drozgu | *drozgasъ, *drozgaxъ* |
vocative | *drozgo | *drozdzě | *drozgy |
* -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).
** 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:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin script: drȍzga
- Cyrillic script: дро̏зга
- Slovene: drọ̑zga (tonal orthography)
- Serbo-Croatian:
References
- Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1981), “drozga”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 4 (dob'estь – družьstvo), Wrocław: Ossolineum, →ISBN, page 260
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