Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žęďa

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

From *žędati (“to wish, desire”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*žę̃ďa f[1]

  1. thirst
  2. craving, yearning, wish, desire
    Synonym: *žeľa

Declension

Declension of *žę̃ďa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *žę̃ďa *žę̃ďi *žę̃ďę̇
genitive *žę̃ďę̇ *žę̃ďu *žę̃ďь
dative *žę̃ďi *žę̃ďama *žę̃ďamъ
accusative *žę̃ďǫ *žę̃ďi *žę̃ďę̇
instrumental *žę̃ďejǫ, *žę̃ďǫ** *žę̃ďama *žę̃ďamī
locative *žę̃ďi *žę̃ďu *žę̃ďasъ, *žę̃ďaxъ*
vocative *žęďe *žę̃ďi *žę̃ďę̇

* -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).

Alternative forms

See also

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: жажа (žaža)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жа́жда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “жажда”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 290
  • Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “жѧжда”, in Старославянский словарь (по рукописям X—XI веков) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)] (overall work in Russian), Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 222
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “жажа”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 840

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žę́dja”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 560
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