Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žęďa

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

From *žędati (“to wish, desire”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*žę̃ďa f

1. thirst
2. craving, yearning, wish, desire

   Synonym: *žeľa

Declension

Declension of *žę̃ďa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*žę̃ďa	*žę̃ďi	*žę̃ďę̇
genitive	*žę̃ďę̇	*žę̃ďu	*žę̃ďь
dative	*žę̃ďi	*žę̃ďama	*žę̃ďamъ
accusative	*žę̃ďǫ	*žę̃ďi	*žę̃ďę̇
instrumental	*žę̃ďejǫ, *žę̃ďǫ**	*žę̃ďama	*žę̃ďamī
locative	*žę̃ďi	*žę̃ďu	*žę̃ďasъ, *žę̃ďaxъ*
vocative	*žęďe	*žę̃ďi	*žę̃ďę̇

^* -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).

Alternative forms

• *žęďь (Serbo-Croatian)

See also

• *smaga

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: жажа (žaža)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: жѩжда (žjęžda), жѧжда (žęžda)
    • Bulgarian: жа́жда (žážda)
    • → Russian: жа́жда (žážda)
  • Macedonian: жед (žed)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: же̑ђа, же̑ђ f

    Latin: žȇđa, žȇđ f, [Term?]

  • Slovene: žeja, žé̯ja
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: *žáda, žiezě, žiezn, žiezen, žiezeň
    • ⇒ Czech: žízeň
      • → Slovak: žízeň
  • Old Polish: żądzá
    • Polish: żądza
  • Slovak: žiadza

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жа́жда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “жажда”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 290
• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “жѧжда”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov), Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 222
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “жажа”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 840