Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obrazъ

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

Back-formation from *obraziti (ESSJa), or as *ob- +‎ *razъ (Vasmer)

Noun

*obra̋zъ m

1. image, look, sight, form

Declension

Declension of *obrazъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*obrazъ	*obraza	*obrazi
genitive	*obraza	*obrazu	*obrazъ
dative	*obrazu	*obrazoma	*obrazomъ
accusative	*obrazъ	*obraza	*obrazy
instrumental	*obrazъmь, *obrazomь*	*obrazoma	*obrazy
locative	*obrazě	*obrazu	*obrazěxъ
vocative	*obraze	*obraza	*obrazi

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

Related terms

• *rězati (“to cut”)
• *obraza (“insult”)
• *zaraza (“contagion”)

Derived terms

• *obrazovati (“to form”)
• *obrazitъ (“artistic”)
• *obrazьnъ (“figurative”)
• *obrazьcь (“sample, model”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: образъ (obrazŭ)
    • Belarusian: во́браз (vóbraz)
    • Russian: о́браз (óbraz)
    • Ukrainian: о́браз (óbraz)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: образъ (obrazŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱁⰱⱃⰰⰸⱏ (obrazŭ)

  • Bulgarian: о́браз (óbraz)
  • Macedonian: о́браз (óbraz)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀браз

    Latin script: òbraz

  • Slovene: obrȁz (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: obraz
    • Czech: obraz
  • Polish: obraz
  • Slovak: obraz
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hobraz
    • Lower Sorbian: wobraz, hobraz

• Other:
  • Old Hungarian: abráz
    • Hungarian: ábráz
  • Romanian: obraz / образ (obraz)
  • Vilamovian: obrozła

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “образ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2002), “*obrazъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 29 (*obpovědati – *obsojьnica), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 63
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “образ”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 751