Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ězda

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

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Noun

*ězda f

1. ride

Inflection

Declension of *ězda (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ězda	*ězdě	*ězdy
genitive	*ězdy	*ězdu	*ězdъ
dative	*ězdě	*ězdama	*ězdamъ
accusative	*ězdǫ	*ězdě	*ězdy
instrumental	*ězdojǫ, *ězdǫ**	*ězdama	*ězdami
locative	*ězdě	*ězdu	*ězdasъ, *ězdaxъ*
vocative	*ězdo	*ězdě	*ězdy

^* -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).

Derived terms

• *ězditi (“to ride”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: езда́ (jezdá)
  • Ukrainian: їзда́ (jizdá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: язда (jazda)
  • Bulgarian: езда́ (ezdá)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Unspecified script:

    Latin script: jezda

  • Slovene: jézda
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jiezda
    • Czech: jízda
  • Kashubian: jazda
  • Polish: jazda
  • Slovak: jazda

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ězda”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 154
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “езда́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress