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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jazva
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]. Cognate with Latvian aĩza, Lithuanian áižа and Old Prussian eyswo.
Noun
*jàzva f[1][2]
- wound
- scar
Declension
Declension of *jàzva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *jàzva | *jàzvě | *jàzvy |
| Accusative | *jàzvǫ | *jàzvě | *jàzvy |
| Genitive | *jàzvy | *jàzvu | *jàzvъ |
| Locative | *jàzvě | *jàzvu | *jàzvasъ, *jàzvaxъ* |
| Dative | *jàzvě | *jàzvama | *jàzvamъ |
| Instrumental | *jàzvojǫ, *jàzvǭ** | *jàzvama | *jàzvamī |
| Vocative | *jàzvo | *jàzvě | *jàzvy |
* -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).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ꙗзва (jazva)
- Belarusian: я́зва (jázva)
- Russian: я́зва (jázva)
- Ukrainian:
- Old East Slavic: ꙗзва (jazva)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: ꙗзва (jazva)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: я́зва (jázva)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jiezva
- Czech: jizva
- Polish: jaźwa (dialectal)
- Slovak: jazva
- Old Czech: jiezva
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “я́зва”, 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), “*ě̀zva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 155: “f. ā (a) ‘wound’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “jazva”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; RPT 110)”