Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/luža

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/luža

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian l̨ugа, luga Lithuanian liū̃gnas, liū̃gas, lūgas, Ancient Greek Λούγεον (Loúgeon, “swamp”), Albanian lëgatë.

Noun

*lùža f[1][2]

1. puddle, pool

Declension

Declension of *lùža (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*lùža	*lùži	*lùžę̇
Accusative	*lùžǫ	*lùži	*lùžę̇
Genitive	*lùžę̇	*lùžu	*lùžь
Locative	*lùžī	*lùžu	*lùžāsъ
Dative	*lùžī	*lùžama	*lùžāmъ
Instrumental	*lùžējǫ, *lùžǭ*	*lùžama	*lùžāmī
Vocative	*lùže	*lùži	*lùžę̇

^* 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: лужа (luža)
    • Russian: лу́жа (lúža)
    • Ukrainian: лу́жа (lúža)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: лужа (luža)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: лу̏жа

    Latin: lȕža

  • Slovene: lúža (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lúžě
    • Czech: louže
  • Polish: łuża (dialectal)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: łuža
    • Upper Sorbian: łuža

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*luža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 217
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “лу́жа”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lùža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 293: “f. jā (a) ‘puddle, pool’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “lužja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 155)”