Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/strъjь

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

Alternative forms

*stryjь
*strycь

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *strujas. Cognate with Lithuanian strùjus (“uncle, old man”).

Fasmer says that it can be from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Morphologically ptr->ttr->str + Proto-Balto-Slavic *-jas.

Noun

*strъjь m

uncle

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: стрꙑи (stryi), стръи (stry)
  - Old Ruthenian: стрый (stryj), стрий (strij)
    - Belarusian: (dialectal) стрый (stryj)
    - Ukrainian: (dialectal) стрий (stryj)
  - Russian: (dialectal, archaic) строй (stroj)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: стрꙑи (stryi) (Serbian recension)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: стри́ко (stríko), стри́ка (stríka)
- ⇒ Macedonian: стрико (striko)
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: стри̑ц
  
  Latin script: strȋc
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): strĩc
- ⇒ Slovene: stríc (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- ⇒ Czech: strýc
- Polabian: stråjă
- Polish: stryj
- ⇒ Slovak: strýc
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: tryk

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 470
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “строй”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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