Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/Daďьbogъ

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

A compound of *daďь, imperative form of *dati (“to give”), and *bogъ (“god”).

Proper noun

*Daďьbogъ m

1. Dažbog

Declension

Declension of *Daďьbogъ (hard o-stem, uncountable)

	singular
nominative	*Daďьbogъ
genitive	*Daďьboga
dative	*Daďьbogu
accusative	*Daďьbogъ
instrumental	*Daďьbogъmь, *Daďьbogomь*
locative	*Daďьbodzě
vocative	*Daďьbože

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: Дажьбогъ (Dažĭbogŭ)
    • Russian: Дажьбог (Dažʹbog)
    • Ukrainian: Дажбог (Dažboh)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian: Дажбог
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: dadzibog
    • Polish: Dadźbog, Polish: Dadźbóg

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*daďbogъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 182