Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agodica
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *àgoda (“berry”) + *-ica.
Noun
*agodica f[1]
- (East and South Slavic, figuratively) cheek
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *agodica | *agodici | *agodicę̇ |
| genitive | *agodicę̇ | *agodicu | *agodicь |
| dative | *agodici | *agodicama | *agodicamъ |
| accusative | *agodicǫ | *agodici | *agodicę̇ |
| instrumental | *agodicejǫ, *agodicǫ** | *agodicama | *agodicami |
| locative | *agodici | *agodicu | *agodicasъ, *agodicaxъ* |
| vocative | *agodice | *agodici | *agodicę̇ |
* -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).
Related terms
nouns
adjectives
- *agodьnъ (“pertaining to berry, of berry”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: я́гадзіца (jáhadzica)
- Russian: я́годица (jágodica)
- ⇒ Russian: я́годница (jágodnica) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Macedonian: јагодица (jagodica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin script: jȁgodica
- Cyrillic script: ја̏годица
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agodica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 59