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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gnojь
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʰnoyH-, from *gʰneyH-. Equivalent to the o-grade of *gňiti + *-ъ.
Noun
*gnȍjь m[1][2]
- pus, manure
Inflection
Declension of *gnȍjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *gnȍjь | *gnȍja | *gnȍji |
| Accusative | *gnȍjь | *gnȍja | *gnȍję̇ |
| Genitive | *gnȍja | *gnojù | *gnòjь |
| Locative | *gnȍji | *gnojù | *gnojĩxъ |
| Dative | *gnȍju | *gnojemà | *gnojèmъ |
| Instrumental | *gnȍjьmь, *gnȍjemь* | *gnojemà | *gnojí |
| Vocative | *gnoju | *gnȍja | *gnȍji |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *gňilъ
- *gňiti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: гной (hnoj)
- Russian: гной (gnoj)
- Rusyn: гній (hnij)
- Ukrainian: гній (hnij)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: гнои (gnoi)
- Glagolitic: ⰳⱀⱁⰻ (gnoi)
- Bulgarian: гной (gnoj)
- Macedonian: гној (gnoj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гно̑ј
- Latin: gnȏj
- Chakavian (Orbanići): [Term?]
- Chakavian (Vrgada): gńȏj
- Slovene: gnoj
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hnój
- Czech: hnůj
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): hnuj
- Czech: hnůj
- Polish: gnój
- Slovak: hnoj
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: hnój
- Lower Sorbian: gnoj
- Old Czech: hnój
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: gunoi
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “гной”, 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), “*gnȏjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170: “m. jo (c) ‘pus, manure’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “gnojь gnoja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 82; PR 137)”