Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/luža

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

Cognate with Latvian l̨ugа, luga, Lithuanian liū̃gnas, liū̃gas, lūgas, and perhaps Ancient Greek Λούγεον (Loúgeon, “swamp”) and Albanian lëgatë, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“swamp, black, dark”).[1]

Noun

*lùža f[2][3]

  1. puddle, pool

Declension

Declension of *lùža (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *lùža *lùži *lùžę̇
genitive *lùžę̇ *lùžu *lùžь
dative *lùžī *lùžama *lùžāmъ
accusative *lùžǫ *lùži *lùžę̇
instrumental *lùžējǫ, *lùžǭ* *lùžama *lùžāmī
locative *lùžī *lùžu *lùžāsъ
vocative *lùže *lùži *lùžę̇

* 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: лужа (luža)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: лужа (luža)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: лу̏жа
      Latin script: lȕža
    • Slovene: lúža (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: lúžě
    • Polish: łuża (dialectal)
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*luža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 217
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лу́жа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “686”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 686
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lùža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 293: “f. jā (a) ‘puddle, pool’”
  3. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “lužja”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 155)”
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