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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/soja
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *sojь (“shaded; blue”) + *-а, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śájas, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱéh₃-yo-s, from *(s)ḱeh₃- (“shadow”) + *-yós, cognate with Proto-Celtic *skātos (“shadow”), Proto-Germanic *hēwijaz (“dark blue”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“to shine, shimmer”)[1][2].
Noun
*sòja f[3]
- jay
Declension
Declension of *soja (soft a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *soja | *soji | *soję̇ |
Accusative | *sojǫ | *soji | *soję̇ |
Genitive | *soję̇ | *soju | *sojь |
Locative | *soji | *soju | *sojasъ, *sojaxъ* |
Dative | *soji | *sojama | *sojamъ |
Instrumental | *sojejǫ, *sojǫ** | *sojama | *sojami |
Vocative | *soje | *soji | *soję̇ |
* -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).
Related terms
- *sojьka
- *osojь (“shady place”)
- *sěnь (“shadow”)
- *sivъ, *śěrъ, *śědъ (“gray”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: соя (soja)
- Belarusian: со́я (sója)
- Russian: со́я (sója)
- Ukrainian: со́я (sója)
- Old East Slavic: соя (soja)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: со́а (sóa) (dialectal, from an earlier *соя)
- Slovene: šọ́ja
- West Slavic:
- Czech: sоjа (dialectal)
- Polish: sоjа (dialectal)
- Slovak: sоjа (dialectal)
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: soja
- Lower Sorbian: soja
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “соя”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Todorov T., editor (2010), “со̀а⁵”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 261
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “šója”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*sòja”