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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/storža
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *sterg-.
Noun
*storža f
- guard, watch
Inflection
Declension of *storža (soft a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *storža | *storži | *storžę̇ |
Accusative | *storžǫ | *storži | *storžę̇ |
Genitive | *storžę̇ | *storžu | *storžь |
Locative | *storži | *storžu | *storžasъ, *storžaxъ* |
Dative | *storži | *storžama | *storžamъ |
Instrumental | *storžejǫ, *storžǫ** | *storžama | *storžami |
Vocative | *storže | *storži | *storžę̇ |
* -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
noun
- *storžь
verbs
- *sterťi
- *storžiti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сторожа (storoža)
- Old Ruthenian: сторо́жа (storóža), старо́жа (staróža)
- Ukrainian: сторо́жа (storóža)
- Russian: сторо́жа (storóža) (obsolete)
- Old Ruthenian: сторо́жа (storóža), старо́жа (staróža)
- Old East Slavic: сторожа (storoža)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: стража (straža)
- → Russian: стра́жа (stráža)
- Bulgarian: стража (straža)
- Macedonian: стража (straža)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: стра̑жа
- Latin: strȃža
- Slovene: stráža (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: strážě
- Czech: stráž
- → Polish: straż
- Kashubian: starża
- Old Polish: stróża
- Slovak: stráž
- Old Czech: strážě
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “стра́жа”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress