Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rajь

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

Probably borrowed from an Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”).

Noun

*ràjь m

  1. paradise

Declension

Declension of *ràjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *ràjь *ràja *ràji
genitive *ràja *ràju *ràjь
dative *ràju *ràjema *ràjēmъ
accusative *ràjь *ràja *ràję̇
instrumental *ràjьmь, *ràjemь* *ràjema *ràjī
locative *ràji *ràju *ràjīxъ
vocative *ràju *ràja *ràji

* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: раи (rai)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: раи (rai)
      Glagolitic script: ⱃⰰⰹ (rai)
    • Bulgarian: рай (raj)
    • Macedonian: рај (raj)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ра̑ј
      Latin script: rȃj
    • Slovene: raj
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: ráj
    • Kashubian: rôj
    • Polish: raj
    • Slovak: raj
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: raj
      • Upper Sorbian: raj
  • → Romanian: rai

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рай”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎[1], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 533
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