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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/suša
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Likely, from *suxъ (< *sux-ja).
Noun
*suša f
- drought
Inflection
Declension of *suša (soft a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *suša | *suši | *sušę̇ |
Accusative | *sušǫ | *suši | *sušę̇ |
Genitive | *sušę̇ | *sušu | *sušь |
Locative | *suši | *sušu | *sušasъ, *sušaxъ* |
Dative | *suši | *sušama | *sušamъ |
Instrumental | *sušejǫ, *sušǫ** | *sušama | *sušami |
Vocative | *suše | *suši | *sušę̇ |
* -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).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: су́ша (súša, “dry land”)
- Ukrainian: су́ша (súša)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: суша (suša)
- Bulgarian: суша (suša)
- Macedonian: суша (suša)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су̑ша
- Latin: sȗša
- Slovene: súša (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: souš (“dry land”)[1]
- Polish: susza
References
- souš in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “су́ша”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress