Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agoda

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

*àgoda (sense 1)

Etymology

From *àga (from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀgāˀ) + *-oda.

Noun

*àgoda f[1][2][3][4]

berry, small fruit
*čь̀rna àgoda ― whortleberry, Vaccinium myrtillus
1. → (figuratively) cheek
  Synonyms: *līcè, *olnita

Inflection

Declension of *àgoda (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*àgoda	*àgodě	*àgody
Accusative	*àgodǫ	*àgodě	*àgody
Genitive	*àgody	*àgodu	*àgodъ
Locative	*àgodě	*àgodu	àgodasъ, àgodaxъ^*
Dative	*àgodě	*àgodama	*àgodamъ
Instrumental	àgodojǫ, àgodǭ^**	*àgodama	*àgodamī
Vocative	*àgodo	*àgodě	*àgody

^* -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

nouns

*agodica f (“cheek”)
*agodina f (“berry”)
*agodišče n (“place where the berries grow”)
*agodьje n (“berries”)
*agodьnica f
*agodьnikъ m

adjectives

*agodьnъ (“pertaining to berry, of berry”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ꙗгода (jagoda), агода (agoda)
  - Old Ruthenian: ꙗ҆́года (jáhoda)
    - Belarusian: я́гада (jáhada)
    - Rusyn: я́года (jáhoda)
    - Ukrainian: я́года (jáhoda)
  - Russian: я́года (jágoda)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: агода (agoda) (Sava's Book)
  - → Romanian: agudă (“mulberry”)
- Bulgarian: я́года (jágoda, “strawberry”)
- Macedonian: ја́года (jágoda, “strawberry”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ја̏года (“strawberry”)
  Latin: jȁgoda (“strawberry”)
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): jȁgoda (“blackberry”)
- Slovene: jágoda (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jahoda (“strawberry”)
  - Czech: jahoda (“strawberry”)
- Kashubian: jagòda
- Polabian: *joďödă
- Old Polish: jagoda
  - Polish: jagoda
- Slovak: jahoda (“strawberry”)
- Slovincian: jȧ̃gɵdă
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: jahoda
  - Lower Sorbian: jagoda

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*àgoda”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 27: “f. ā (a) ‘berry’”
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agoda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 57
Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “agoda”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: National Ossoliński Institute, page 152
Olander, Thomas (2001), “agoda -y”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”