< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rajь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably borrowed from an Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”).
Noun
*ràjь m
- paradise
Declension
Declension of *ràjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *ràjь | *ràja | *ràji |
Accusative | *ràjь | *ràja | *ràję̇ |
Genitive | *ràja | *ràju | *ràjь |
Locative | *ràji | *ràju | *ràjīxъ |
Dative | *ràju | *ràjema | *ràjēmъ |
Instrumental | *ràjьmь, *ràjemь* | *ràjema | *ràjī |
Vocative | *ràju | *ràja | *ràji |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *radǫga (“rainbow”) (in East Slavic, prefix *ra- linked by folk etymology with *rajь)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: раи (rai)
- Old Ruthenian: рай (raj)
- Belarusian: рай (raj)
- Rusyn: рай (raj)
- Ukrainian: рай (raj)
- Russian: рай (raj)
- Old Ruthenian: рай (raj)
- Old East Slavic: раи (rai)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: раи (rai)
- Glagolitic: ⱃⰰⰹ (rai)
- Bulgarian: рай (raj)
- Macedonian: рај (raj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ра̑ј
- Latin: rȃj
- Slovene: raj
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: ráj
- Kashubian: rôj
- Polish: raj
- Slovak: raj
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: raj
- Upper Sorbian: raj
- → Romanian: rai
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “рай”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics), volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 533