Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děža

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *daiźjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoyǵʰyeh₂, from *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead”).

Noun

*dě̄žà f[1]

  1. kneading trough

Inflection

Declension of *dě̄žà (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *dě̄žà *dě̃ži *dě̄žę̇̀
genitive *dě̄žę̇̀ *dě̄žù *dě̃žь
dative *dě̄žì *dě̄žàma *dě̄žàmъ
accusative *dě̄žǫ̀ *dě̃ži *dě̄žę̇̀
instrumental *dě̄žèjǫ, *dě̃žǫ** *dě̄žàma *dě̄žàmī
locative *dě̄žì *dě̄žù *dě̄žàsъ, *dě̄žàxъ*
vocative *děže *dě̃ži *dě̄žę̇̀

* -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).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: дзяжа́ (dzjažá)
    • Russian: дежа́ (dežá)
    • Ukrainian: діжа́ (dižá); дейжа́ (dejžá), дежа́ (dežá) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: дѣжа (děža)
    • Serbo-Croatian: (“milking-tub”) (archaic, regional)
      Cyrillic script: ди́жа, ди̑жва, дижица, де̑жа
      Latin script: díža, dȋžva, dižica, dȇža
    • Slovene: dẹ́ža, díža (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: diežě
    • Polish: dzieża
    • Slovak: dieža
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: źěža
      • Upper Sorbian: dźěža
  • Non-Slavic:
    • → Hungarian: dézsa
    • → Romanian: déjă, déje
    • → Yiddish: דייזשע (deyzhe)
    • → Lithuanian: dėžė

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дежа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*děža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 23

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dě̄žà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 106: “f. jā (b)”
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