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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъrčь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Possibly an expressive variant of Proto-Slavic *kъrčь (“spasm”) or alternatively[1] from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, to twine”) + *-čь, akin to Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ (“hump”).
Noun
*gъ̀rčь m
- cramp, spasm
- gnarl
Alternative forms
- *gъ̀rča[1] (jā-stem)
Declension
Declension of *gъrčь (soft o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *gъrčь | *gъrča | *gъrči |
Accusative | *gъrčь | *gъrča | *gъrčę̇ |
Genitive | *gъrča | *gъrču | *gъrčь |
Locative | *gъrči | *gъrču | *gъrčixъ |
Dative | *gъrču | *gъrčema | *gъrčemъ |
Instrumental | *gъrčьmь, *gъrčemь* | *gъrčema | *gъrči |
Vocative | *gъrču | *gъrča | *gъrči |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *gъrčiti (“to convulse”)
- *gъrčavъ (“convulsive”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: ги́рч'а (hýrčʺa) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: гърч (gǎrč)
- Macedonian: грч (grč)
- Serbo-Croatian::
- Cyrillic: гр̏ч; грча
- Latin: gȑč; grča
- Slovene: gŕč (tonal orthography); gŕča
- West Slavic:
- Czech: hrč f, hrča (dialectal)
- Slovak: hrča (dialectal)
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gъrčь/*gъrčа”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 202
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “гърча се”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 304
References
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “grča”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *gъ̋rča”