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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děža
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *daiźjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoyǵʰyeh₂, from *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead”).
Noun
*dě̄žà f[1]
- kneading trough
Inflection
Declension of *dě̄žà (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *dě̄žà | *dě̃ži | *dě̄žę̇̀ |
| Accusative | *dě̄žǫ̀ | *dě̃ži | *dě̄žę̇̀ |
| Genitive | *dě̄žę̇̀ | *dě̄žù | *dě̃žь |
| Locative | *dě̄žì | *dě̄žù | *dě̄žàsъ, *dě̄žàxъ* |
| Dative | *dě̄žì | *dě̄žàma | *dě̄žàmъ |
| Instrumental | *dě̄žèjǫ, *dě̃žǫ** | *dě̄žàma | *dě̄žàmī |
| Vocative | *děže | *dě̃ži | *dě̄žę̇̀ |
* -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).
Related terms
- *zidъ, *zьdь (“wall”)
- *zьdati (“to build”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: дзяжа́ (dzjažá)
- Russian: де́жа́ (déžá)
- Ukrainian: діжа́ (dižá); дейжа́ (dejžá), дежа́ (dežá) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: дѣжа (děža)
- Serbo-Croatian: (“milking-tub”) (archaic, regional)
- Cyrillic: ди́жа, ди̑жва, дижица, де̑жа
- Latin: díža, dȋžva, dižica, dȇža
- Slovene: dẹ́ža, díža (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: diežě
- Czech: díže, díž
- Moravian (Mistřice): ďíža
- Czech: díže, díž
- Polish: dzieża
- Slovak: dieža
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: źěža
- Upper Sorbian: dźěža
- Old Czech: diežě
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: dézsa
- → Romanian: déjă, déje
- → Yiddish: דייזשע (deyzhe)
- → Lithuanian: dėžė
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “дежа”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*děža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 23
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dě̄žà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 106: “f. jā (b)”