Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/suša

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 *suxъ +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*suša f

drought

Inflection

Declension of *suša (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*suša	*suši	*sušę̇
genitive	*sušę̇	*sušu	*sušь
dative	*suši	*sušama	*sušamъ
accusative	*sušǫ	*suši	*sušę̇
instrumental	sušejǫ, sušǫ^**	*sušama	*sušami
locative	*suši	*sušu	sušasъ, sušaxъ^*
vocative	*suše	*suši	*sušę̇

^* -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.
^** 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:
- Russian: су́ша (súša, “dry land”)
- Ukrainian: су́ша (súša)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: суша (suša)
- Bulgarian: су́ша (súša)
- Macedonian: суша (suša)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: су̑ша
  
  Latin script: sȗša
- Slovene: súša (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: súšě
  - Czech: souš (“dry land”)^[1]
- Kashubian: suszô
- Polish: susza
- Slovak: súš (“dry land”)
- Pannonian Rusyn: суша (suša)

Non-Slavic:
- → Albanian: zushë

References

^ “souš”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “су́ша”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

[1] “souš”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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