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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gręzь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *gręzti (“to sink”) + *-ь.
Noun
*grę̑zь f[1][2]
- mud, dirt
Declension
Declension of *grę̑zь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *grę̑zь | *grę̑zi | *grę̑zi |
Accusative | *grę̑zь | *grę̑zi | *grę̑zi |
Genitive | *gręzí | *gręzьjù, *gręžu* | *gręzь̀jь |
Locative | *gręzí | *gręzьjù, *gręžu* | *grę̑zьxъ |
Dative | *grę̑zi | *gręzьmà | *grę̑zьmъ |
Instrumental | *gręzьjǫ́ | *gręzьmà | *gręzьmì |
Vocative | *gręzi | *grę̑zi | *grę̑zi |
* 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
- *gręza (“mud, dirt, mire”)
- *gręziti (“to sink”)
- *gręzti (“to sink”)
- *grę̑znǫti (“to sink”)
- *grǫziti (“to sink”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: грѣзъ (grězŭ), грѧзь (gręzĭ)
- Belarusian: гразь (hrazʹ)
- Russian: грязь (grjazʹ)
- Ukrainian: грязь (hrjazʹ)
- Old East Slavic: грѣзъ (grězŭ), грѧзь (gręzĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: грѧзъ (gręzŭ)
- Bulgarian: грез (grez)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гре̑з
- Latin: grȇz
- Slovene: grẹ̑z (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: hřez (Jungmann's 18th-century dictionary)
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gręzь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 125
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “грязь”, 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), “*grę̑zь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189: “f. i (c) ‘mud, dirt’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “gręzь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c smuds, slam (PR 138)”