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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mьzda

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 *misdá, from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂.

Noun

*mьzdà f[1][2]

  1. payment, pay

Inflection
Declension of *mьzdà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *mьzdà *mь̀zdě *mьzdỳ
genitive *mьzdỳ *mьzdù *mь̀zdъ
dative *mьzdě̀ *mьzdàma *mьzdàmъ
accusative *mьzdǫ̀ *mь̀zdě *mьzdỳ
instrumental *mьzdòjǫ, *mь̀zdǫ** *mьzdàma *mьzdàmī
locative *mьzdě̀ *mьzdù *mьzdàsъ, *mьzdàxъ*
vocative *mьzdo *mь̀zdě *mьzdỳ
* -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).

Derived terms
  • *mьzdojьmьcь
  • *mьzdьnikъ
  • *mьzdьnъ

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мзда (mzda), мьзда (mĭzda), мъзда (mŭzda), мезда (mezda)
    • Old Novgorodian: мьꙁда (mĭzda), мꙁда (mzda)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: мьзда (mĭzda)
    • Bulgarian: мъзда́ (mǎzdá)
    • Macedonian: мазд m (mazd)
    • Serbo-Croatian: mázda, mzda, ма́зда, мзда
    • Slovene: mə̄zda, məzdà, mẹ̄zda, mézda (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мзда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mьzda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 21 (*mъrskovatъjь – *nadějьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 176
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “мзда”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mьzda”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 343: “f. ā (b) ‘payment, pay’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “mьzda mьzdy”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b løn (PR 135)”
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