Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/loza

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 *lozda (< *loĝ-zdā), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁loǵ-eh₂, which originally probably just meant branch or log.^[1]^[2] Cognate with *lěska (“hazel”),^[3] Lithuanian lazdà (“staff”) and Latvian lagzda (“hazel”). Further cognates include Ancient Greek ὀλόγινον (ológinon, “vine”) and Hittite [script needed] (alk-, “branch”).

Noun

*lozà f^[4]^[5]

(flexible) rod^[6]

Declension

Declension of *lozà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lozà	*lȍzě	*lȍzy
genitive	*lozý	*lozù	*lòzъ
dative	*lozě̀	*lozàma	*lozàmъ
accusative	*lȍzǫ	*lȍzě	*lȍzy
instrumental	*lozojǫ́	*lozàma	*lozàmi
locative	*lȍzě	*lozù	lozàsъ, lozàxъ^*
vocative	*lozo	*lȍzě	*lȍzy

^* -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.

Derived terms

*lozovъ (“of the vine”)
*lozьjе (“vineyard”)
*lozьnica (“vine branch”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: лоза (loza)
  - Belarusian: лаза́ (lazá)
  - Russian: лоза́ (lozá)
  - Ukrainian: лоза́ (lozá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: лоза (loza)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰾⱁⰸⰰ (loza)
- Bulgarian: лоза́ (lozá)
- Macedonian: ло́за (lóza)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ло̀за
  
  Latin script: lòza
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): lozȁ
- Slovene: lóza, lọ́za (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: loza
  - Czech:
    - Moravian (Mistřice): u̯oza
- Polish: łoza
- Slovak: loza

References

^ Mallory, J. P., D.Q. Adams. 2006. The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford: OUP. P.157
^ D. Weeks (1985), 8.55: Branch in Hittite Vocabulary, an appendix to Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages
^ Dybo, Vladimir (2002) “Balto-Slavic Accentology and Winter's Law”, in Studia Linguarum, volume 3, Moscow, page 486 of 295–515
^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lozà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 286: “f. ā (c) ‘vine’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “loza lozy”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c neg, ris (PR 138)”
^ Pronk, Tijmen, Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2018) “Balto-Slavic Agricultural Terminology”, in Guus Kroonen, James P. Mallory and Bernard Comrie, editors, Journal of Indo-European Studies‎^[2], number 65, Washington, D.C.: The Institute for the Study of Man, Inc., page 280

[1] Mallory, J. P., D.Q. Adams. 2006. The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford: OUP. P.157

[2] D. Weeks (1985), 8.55: Branch in Hittite Vocabulary, an appendix to Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages

[3] Dybo, Vladimir (2002) “Balto-Slavic Accentology and Winter's Law”, in Studia Linguarum, volume 3, Moscow, page 486 of 295–515

[4] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lozà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 286: “f. ā (c) ‘vine’”

[5] Olander, Thomas (2001) “loza lozy”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c neg, ris (PR 138)”

[6] Pronk, Tijmen, Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2018) “Balto-Slavic Agricultural Terminology”, in Guus Kroonen, James P. Mallory and Bernard Comrie, editors, Journal of Indo-European Studies‎^[2], number 65, Washington, D.C.: The Institute for the Study of Man, Inc., page 280

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