Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/groza

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/groza

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *groź-. Compare English grue (“to shudder”).

Noun

*grozà f[1][2]

1. horror

Inflection

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*grozà	*grȍzě	*grȍzy
Accusative	*grȍzǫ	*grȍzě	*grȍzy
Genitive	*grozý	*grozù	*gròzъ
Locative	*grȍzě	*grozù	*grozàsъ, *grozàxъ*
Dative	*grozě̀	*grozàma	*grozàmъ
Instrumental	*grozojǫ́	*grozàma	*grozàmi
Vocative	*grozo	*grȍzě	*grȍzy

^* -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.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гроза (groza)
    • Belarusian: граза́ (hrazá)
    • Russian: гроза́ (grozá)
    • Ukrainian: гроза́ (hrozá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: гроза (groza)

    Glagolitic: ⰳⱃⱁⰸⰰ (groza)

    • Church Slavonic: гроза (groza) (Russian recension)
  • Bulgarian: гроза́ (grozá), (dialectal) груза́ (gruzá)
  • Macedonian: гроза (groza)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: гро́за, гро̀за, (dialectal) гро̏за

    Roman: gróza, gròza, (dialectal) grȍza

  • Slovene: gróza
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hrůza
  • Polish: groza
  • Slovak: hrôza
  • Slovincian: grʉ̀ɵ̯ză
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: groza
    • Upper Sorbian: hroza

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*groza”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 141

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*grozà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 191: “f. ā (c) ‘horror’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “groza grozy”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c frygt, uvejr, trussel (PR 138)”