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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫže

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

Formed as *ǫzъ (“bond, junction”) +‎ *-je. In several daughter languages, the descendants demonstrate prosthetic *v- or *j-.

Modern South Slavic descendants descendants decline as *-ę, but this is likely due to later reanalysis (compare the South Slavic descendants of Proto-Slavic *moře).

Noun

*ǫ̀že n[1]

  1. rope

Declension
Declension of *ǫže (soft o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *ǫže *ǫži *ǫža
genitive *ǫža *ǫžu *ǫžь
dative *ǫžu *ǫžema *ǫžemъ
accusative *ǫže *ǫži *ǫža
instrumental *ǫžьmь, *ǫžemь* *ǫžema *ǫži
locative *ǫži *ǫžu *ǫžixъ
vocative *ǫže *ǫži *ǫža
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms
  • *ǫženъ (“made of rope”)
  • *ǫžьnikъ (“captive”)
  • *sǫžьňь (“slave”)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: ѫже (ǫže)
      Glagolitic script: ⰨⰆⰅ (ǪŽE)
    • Bulgarian: въже (vǎže), dial. юже (juže), въ́нджи (vǎ́ndži) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: јаже (jaže)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: у̏же
      Latin script: ȕže
    • Slovene: vо̣̑žе (archaic)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech:
    • Polabian: vǫzе
    • Slovak:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “у́же”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “въже”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 202

References
  1. Snoj, Marko (2016) “súženj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *ǫ̋že”
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