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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/blizna
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰliǵ-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to dazzle, to strike”). Morphologically *bliz- + *-na. Cognate with Latin flīgere.
Noun
*blizna f[1]
- scar, defect
- Synonyms: *dьgna, *bělěgъ
Declension
Declension of *blizna (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *blizna | *blizně | *blizny |
| Accusative | *bliznǫ | *blizně | *blizny |
| Genitive | *blizny | *bliznu | *bliznъ |
| Locative | *blizně | *bliznu | *bliznasъ, *bliznaxъ* |
| Dative | *blizně | *bliznama | *bliznamъ |
| Instrumental | *bliznojǫ, *bliznǫ** | *bliznama | *bliznami |
| Vocative | *blizno | *blizně | *blizny |
* -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).
Alternative forms
- *blizno
Related terms
- *blizъ (“near, proximate”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: близна (blizna)
- Belarusian: блюзна́ (bljuzná)
- Russian: близна́ (blizná)
- Ukrainian: близна́ (blyzná)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: близна́ (blizná)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бли̏зна
- Latin: blȉzna
- West Slavic:
- Czech: blizna
- Old Polish: blizna
- Polish: blizna
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: bluzna
- Upper Sorbian: błuzna
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “близна́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*blizna; *blizno”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 45: “f. ā; n. o”