Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/godъ

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gadás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (to gather, to join).

Cognate with Latvian gads (year), Latgalian gods (year), Proto-West Germanic *gad (union) and further related to Proto-West Germanic *gadur (together).

Noun

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*gȍdъ m[1][2][3]

  1. suitable, right time
    Synonym: *doba
  2. holiday, festive season (in West Slavic)
  3. year (in East and South Slavic)

Alternative forms

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Inflection

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Slovene and dial. Bulgarian (e.g. о́т году до́ году (ót godu dó godu, for auld lang syne)) also show evidence for u-stem declension.

Derived terms

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  • *godìti (to reconcile, to content)

See also

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: годъ (godŭ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “год”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “год”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 198
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*godъ / *goda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 191
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “год”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “год”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 259

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gȏdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 172:m. o ‘right time’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “godъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c tid, frist (PR 137; RPT 84ff.)
  3. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “god”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *gȍdъ (in *godъ̏)