Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gǫdьba

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

*gǫsti +*-ьba

Noun

*gǫdьba f

1. humming

Declension

Declension of *gǫdьba (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gǫdьba	*gǫdьbě	*gǫdьby
genitive	*gǫdьby	*gǫdьbu	*gǫdьbъ
dative	*gǫdьbě	*gǫdьbama	*gǫdьbamъ
accusative	*gǫdьbǫ	*gǫdьbě	*gǫdьby
instrumental	*gǫdьbojǫ, *gǫdьbǫ**	*gǫdьbama	*gǫdьbami
locative	*gǫdьbě	*gǫdьbu	*gǫdьbasъ, *gǫdьbaxъ*
vocative	*gǫdьbo	*gǫdьbě	*gǫdьby

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: гудзьба́ (hudzʹbá) (obsolete)
  • Russian: гудьба́ (gudʹbá)
  • Ukrainian: гудьба́ (hudʹbá) (dialectal or rare)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)

    Cyrillic: гу̀дба

    Latin: gùdba

  • Slovene: gọ̑dba (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hudba
    • Czech: hudba
  • Old Polish: gędźba
    • Polish: gędźba (obsolete)
  • Slovak: hudba

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gǫdьba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 81