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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zmьja
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.
Noun
*zmьjà f
- snake
Declension
Declension of *zmьjà (soft a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *zmьjà | *zmьji | *zmьję̇ |
Accusative | *zmьjǫ | *zmьji | *zmьję̇ |
Genitive | *zmьję̇ | *zmьju | *zmьjь |
Locative | *zmьji | *zmьju | *zmьjasъ, *zmьjaxъ* |
Dative | *zmьji | *zmьjama | *zmьjamъ |
Instrumental | *zmьjejǫ, *zmьjǫ** | *zmьjama | *zmьjami |
Vocative | *zmьje | *zmьji | *zmьję̇ |
* -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
- *zmьjь
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: змяя́ (zmjajá)
- Russian: змея́ (zmejá)
- Ukrainian: змія́ (zmijá)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: змиꙗ (zmija)
- Bulgarian: змия́ (zmijá)
- Macedonian: змија (zmija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: змѝја
- Latin: zmìja
- Slovene: zmija
- West Slavic:
- Czech: zmije
- Kashubian: znija, żmija, żnija
- Old Polish: źmija
- Polish: żmija
- Slovak: zmija
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “змея́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*zmьjà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 545