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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lože
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *logʰ-yo-m, from *legʰ-. Equivalent to *logъ (“base, lair”) + *-je. Cognate with Ancient Greek λόχος (lókhos), Proto-Germanic *lagą.
Noun
*ložè n[1][2]
- bed
Inflection
Declension of *ložè (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *ložè | *lòži | *lòža |
| Accusative | *ložè | *lòži | *lòža |
| Genitive | *ložà | *ložu | *lòžь |
| Locative | *ložì | *ložu | *lòžixъ |
| Dative | *ložù | *ložema | *lòžemъ |
| Instrumental | *ložь̀mь, *ložèmь* | *ložema | *lòži |
| Vocative | *ložè | *lòži | *lòža |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *leťi (“to lie (down)”)
- *ležàti (“to lie”)
- *lěgati (“to lie”)
- *lȏgъ (“lair, riverbed”)
- *lonò (“breast, lap”)
- *ložesno (“womb”)
- *ložiti (“to lay”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- ⇒ Belarusian: ло́жак (lóžak)
- Russian: ло́же (lóže)
- Ukrainian: ло́же (lóže)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: ложе (lože)
- Glagolitic: ⰾⱁⰶⰵ (lože)
- Bulgarian: ло́же (lóže)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ложе
- Latin: lože
- Slovene: lọ́žе (obsolete)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: lože
- Czech: lože
- Polish: łoże
- ⇒ Slovak: ložko
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: łоžо
- Upper Sorbian: łоžо
- Old Czech: lože
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ло́же”, 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), “*lože”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 287: “n. jo ‘bed’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “?lože”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b seng (PR 135)”