Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grabežь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grabežь

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 *grabiti +‎ *-ežь.

Noun

*grabežь m

1. grabbing

Declension

Declension of *grabežь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*grabežь	*grabeža	*grabeži
Accusative	*grabežь	*grabeža	*grabežę̇
Genitive	*grabeža	*grabežu	*grabežь
Locative	*grabeži	*grabežu	*grabežixъ
Dative	*grabežu	*grabežema	*grabežemъ
Instrumental	*grabežьmь, *grabežemь*	*grabežema	*grabeži
Vocative	*grabežu	*grabeža	*grabeži

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: грабежь (grabežĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: грабе́жъ (hrabéž), грабе́жь (hrabéžʹ), грабе́зъ (hrabéz), кграбе́жъ (grabéž)
      • Belarusian: грабёж (hrabjóž)
      • Ukrainian: грабі́ж (hrabíž)
    • Russian: грабёж (grabjóž)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: грабѐж (grabèž)
  • Macedonian: грабеж (grabež)
  • Slovene: grábež (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: grabież

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grabežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 96