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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/guja
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
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Noun
*guja f
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Declension
Declension of *guja (soft a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *guja | *guji | *guję̇ |
| Accusative | *gujǫ | *guji | *guję̇ |
| Genitive | *guję̇ | *guju | *gujь |
| Locative | *guji | *guju | *gujasъ, *gujaxъ* |
| Dative | *guji | *gujama | *gujamъ |
| Instrumental | *gujejǫ, *gujǫ** | *gujama | *gujami |
| Vocative | *guje | *guji | *guję̇ |
* -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).
See also
- *gǫžь
- *guščerъ
- *zmьja (“snake”)
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: гу́я (gúja, “snake”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гу́ја (“snake, helminth”)
- Latin: gúja
- West Slavic:
- Czech: dial. huja (“gut, intestine, bowel; sausage”) (> hujec (“pig stomach stuffed with minced meat”))
References
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*guja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 168