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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/koža

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 *koza (“goat”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*kòža f[1][2]

  1. skin
  2. leather

Declension
Declension of *kòža (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *kòža *kòži *kòžę̇
genitive *kòžę̇ *kòžu *kòžь
dative *kòži *kòžama *kòžamъ
accusative *kòžǫ *kòži *kòžę̇
instrumental *kòžejǫ, *kòžǫ** *kòžama *kòžamī
locative *kòži *kòžu *kòžasъ, *kòžaxъ*
vocative *kože *kòži *kòžę̇
* -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
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: кожа (koža)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: кожа (koža)
      Glagolitic script: ⰽⱁⰶⰰ (koža)
    • Bulgarian: ко́жа (kóža)
    • Macedonian: ко́жа (kóža)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ко̏жа
      Latin script: kȍža
    • Slovene: kọ́ža (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Non-Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кожа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*koža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 35

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kòža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 242: “f. jā (b) ‘skin, leather’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “kozja kozjě”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b* (SA 138; PR 135; MP 19)”
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