Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gręzь

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 *gręzti (“to sink”) +‎ *-ь.

Noun

*grę̑zь f[1][2]

  1. mud, dirt

Declension

Declension of *grę̑zь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *grę̑zь *grę̑zi *grę̑zi
genitive *gręzí *gręzьjù, *gręžu* *gręzь̀jь
dative *grę̑zi *gręzьmà *grę̑zьmъ
accusative *grę̑zь *grę̑zi *grę̑zi
instrumental *gręzьjǫ́ *gręzьmà *gręzьmì
locative *gręzí *gręzьjù, *gręžu* *grę̑zьxъ
vocative *gręzi *grę̑zi *grę̑zi

* 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:
    • Old East Slavic: грѣзъ (grězŭ), грѧзь (gręzĭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: грѧзъ (gręzŭ)
    • Bulgarian: грез (grez)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: гре̑з
      Latin script: grȇz
    • Slovene: grẹ̑z (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: hřez (Jungmann's 18th-century dictionary)

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gręzь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 125
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “грязь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*grę̑zь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189: “f. i (c) ‘mud, dirt’”
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “gręzь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c smuds, slam (PR 138)”
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