Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/godъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gadás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to gather, to join”).[1]
Cognate with Latvian gads (“year”), Latgalian gods (“year”), Proto-West Germanic *gad (“union”) and further related to Proto-West Germanic *gadur (“together”).
Noun
- suitable, right time
- Synonym: *doba
- holiday, festive season (in West Slavic)
- year (in East and South Slavic)
Alternative forms
Inflection
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *gȍdъ | *gȍda | *gȍdi |
genitive | *gȍda | *godù | *gòdъ |
dative | *gȍdu | *godomà | *godòmъ |
accusative | *gȍdъ | *gȍda | *gȍdy |
instrumental | *gȍdъmь, *gȍdomь* | *godomà | *godý |
locative | *gȍdě | *godù | *godě̃xъ |
vocative | *gode | *gȍda | *gȍdi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Slovene and dial. Bulgarian (e.g. о́т году до́ году (ót godu dó godu, “for auld lang syne”)) also show evidence for u-stem declension.
Derived terms
- *godě (“suitably, contently”) (adverb)
- *godina (“hour”)
- *godežь (“gathering, matching”)
- *sъgoda (“good, lucky occassion”)
Related terms
- *godìti (“to reconcile, to content”)
See also
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “год”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “год”, 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 198
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*godъ / *goda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 191
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “год”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “год”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 259
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gȏdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 172: “m. o ‘right time’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “godъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c tid, frist (PR 137; RPT 84ff.)”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “god”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *gȍdъ (in *godъ̏)”