Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ězda

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

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Noun

*ězda f

ride

Inflection

Declension of *ězda (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*ězda	*ězdě	*ězdy
Accusative	*ězdǫ	*ězdě	*ězdy
Genitive	*ězdy	*ězdu	*ězdъ
Locative	*ězdě	*ězdu	ězdasъ, ězdaxъ^*
Dative	*ězdě	*ězdama	*ězdamъ
Instrumental	ězdojǫ, ězdǫ^**	*ězdama	*ězdami
Vocative	*ězdo	*ězdě	*ězdy

^* -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).

Derived terms

*ězditi (“to ride”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: езда́ (jezdá)
- Ukrainian: їзда́ (jizdá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: язда (jazda)
- Bulgarian: езда́ (ezdá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Unspecified:
  Latin: jezda
- Slovene: jézda
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jiezda
  - Czech: jízda
- Polish: jazda
- Slovak: jazda

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ězda”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 154
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “езда́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress