Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gǫzъ

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-Indo-European *gonǵ-, *gouǵ- (“lump”). Cognate with Ancient Greek γογγῠ́λος (gongŭ́los, “round”), Old Prussian gunsix (“bump”) (? < Polish *gązik), Lithuanian gū́žis (“cabbage head”), Albanian gungë (“hump, lump”), Old Norse kǫngull (“cluster, bunch”).^[1]

Noun

*gǫzъ m

ass, buttock, bump

Alternative forms

*gǫza f, *guzъ m

Derived terms

*gǫzati
*gǫzyrь
*gǫzьnъ, *gǫzьno
? *gǫžь
- *gǫžьvь, *gǫžьva

Declension

Declension of *gǫzъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gǫzъ	*gǫza	*gǫzi
genitive	*gǫza	*gǫzu	*gǫzъ
dative	*gǫzu	*gǫzoma	*gǫzomъ
accusative	*gǫzъ	*gǫza	*gǫzy
instrumental	gǫzъmь, gǫzomь^*	*gǫzoma	*gǫzy
locative	*gǫzě	*gǫzu	*gǫzěxъ
vocative	*gǫze	*gǫza	*gǫzi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
  - Belarusian: гуз (huz, “bump”); гузэ́ pl (huzé, “glands”) (dialectal)
  - Russian: гуз (guz, “ass, buttock; bottom of the sheaf; thick bottom of the tree; tumour; narrow long strip”), гу́за f (gúza, “wrinkle, crease, pleat”), гуза́ f (guzá), гузо́ n (guzó, “bottom of the sheaf, thick bottom of the tree”); гу́зка f (gúzka, “rump (of a bird); ass”) (dialectal); гузно n (guzno)
  - Middle Ukrainian: гузна f (huzna), гузица f (huzyca, “ass”)^[2]
    - Ukrainian: гуза́ f (huzá, “stern, rear of the boat; ass”); гу́зка f (húzka, “egg blunt end; rump (of a bird); callus; wart; lipoma; bottom of the ochipok”), гу́зно n (húzno, “butt, rump, ass”), гузи́р m (huzýr, “lower part of a sheaf; place where a sack is tied”)
- Old Novgorodian: гꙋска f (guska)^[3]^[4]
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Bulgarian: гъз (gǎz, “ass, buttocks, anus”); гъс (gǎs) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: газ (gaz, “ass, butt, buttocks”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: гу̑з (“ass; egg blunt end”), гу́за f (“butt; crease”); гу̀зица f (“butt”)
  
  Latin script: gȗz (“ass; egg blunt end”), gúza f (“butt; crease”); gùzica f (“butt”)
- Slovene: góza f (“butt”), gúza f (“butt; crease; wrinkle”)
West Slavic:
- Czech: huza f (“tailbone”), huzo n (“rump (of a bird)”)
- Polish: gąz (obsolete); guz (“bump, tumour; clothing button”)
- Slovincian: gúz (“bump”)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gǫzъ / *gǫza / *guzъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 91
^ Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2000), “гузица; гузна”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 7 (головнѣйший – десѧтина), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 115
^ “гꙋска (letter no. 330)”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus]‎^[1][2] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2025
^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “гузка”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[3] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 729

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gǫzъ / *gǫza / *guzъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 91

[2] Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2000), “гузица; гузна”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 7 (головнѣйший – десѧтина), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 115

[3] “гꙋска (letter no. 330)”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus]‎^[1][2] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2025

[4] Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “гузка”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[3] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 729

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