Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gazъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *gāˀźas, from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go”).

Noun

*gazъ m

ford

Declension

Declension of *gazъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gazъ	*gaza	*gazi
genitive	*gaza	*gazu	*gazъ
dative	*gazu	*gazoma	*gazomъ
accusative	*gazъ	*gaza	*gazy
instrumental	gazъmь, gazomь^*	*gazoma	*gazy
locative	*gazě	*gazu	*gazěxъ
vocative	*gaze	*gaza	*gazi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

*gaziti (probably)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: газ (haz) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Macedonian: газ (gaz) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: га̑з
  
  Latin script: gȃz
- Slovene: gaz

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gazъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 113

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