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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/duša

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

Perhaps from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dáuṣjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowsyeh₂, from *dʰews- +‎ *-yeh₂. Equivalent to *duxъ (“spirit”) +‎ *-ja.

Compare Lithuanian daũsios f pl (“air; empyrean, paradise”), Gaulish dusios (“phantasm”).

Noun

*dušà f[1][2]

  1. soul
  2. spirit

Declension
Declension of *dušà (soft a-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *dušà *dȗši *dȗšę̇
genitive *dušę̇́ *dušù *dũšь
dative *dušì *dušàma *dušàmъ
accusative *dȗšǫ *dȗši *dȗšę̇
instrumental *dušejǫ́ *dušàma *dušàmi
locative *dȗšī *dušù *dušàsъ, *dušàxъ*
vocative *duše *dȗši *dȗšę̇
* -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.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: доуша (duša)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: доуша (duša)
      Glagolitic script: ⰴⱆⱎⰰ (duša)
    • Bulgarian: душа (duša)
    • Macedonian: душа (duša)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ду́ша
      Latin script: dúša
    • Slovene: dúša (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*duša”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 164

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dušà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 127: “f. jā (c) ‘soul’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “duša dušě”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c sjæl (PR 138)”
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