Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gnězdo
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nisdá, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós.
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian lìzdas, Latvian ligzds, ligzda. The Slavic forms show a different anlaut from the Baltic forms; the Slavic forms have gained an initial *gn- on the basis of some other model such as *gnojь (“manure, pus”), though which particular word was used as a model is hard to say. The choice of *gnojь (“manure, pus”) also has an possible advantage in that it can account for the presence of *ě in *gnězdo, otherwise an anomaly. Skok instead explains the anomalous cluster and the many reflexes in Serbo-Croatian as resulting from various dissimilations of the dental consonants. Mel’nyčuk suggests the initial part of the word was reconstructed on the model of *gněti or its precursor.
Noun
Inflection
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *gně̄zdò | *gně̃zdě | *gně̄zdà |
genitive | *gně̄zdà | *gně̄zdù | *gně̃zdъ |
dative | *gně̄zdù | *gně̄zdòma | *gně̄zdòmъ |
accusative | *gně̄zdò | *gně̃zdě | *gně̄zdà |
instrumental | *gně̄zdъ̀mь, *gně̄zdòmь* | *gně̄zdòma | *gně̃zdy |
locative | *gně̄zdě̀ | *gně̄zdù | *gně̃zděxъ |
vocative | *gně̄zdò | *gně̃zdě | *gně̄zdà |
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гнездо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gnězdo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 06 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 171
- Template:R:sh:Skok1971
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “гніздо”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gně̄zdò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 169: “n. o (b) ‘nest’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “gnězdo, pl. gnězda / gnězda”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b feather (NA 105; SA 156; PR 135)”
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