Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pazduxa

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *pōsdaušāˀ, the root of the word is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dóws (“shoulder, clavicle”). The prepositional syllable is either the prefix *pa- (“close, secondary”) or the noun *pazъ (“cleft”). The term is a direct cognate with Latvian paduse, while further away it is related to Persian دوش (duš, “shoulder”).

Noun

*pazduxa f

1. bosom (space between the breasts)
2. armpit

Declension

Declension of *pazduxa (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pazduxa	*pazduśě	*pazduxy
genitive	*pazduxy	*pazduxu	*pazduxъ
dative	*pazduśě	*pazduxama	*pazduxamъ
accusative	*pazduxǫ	*pazduśě	*pazduxy
instrumental	*pazduxojǫ, *pazduxǫ**	*pazduxama	*pazduxami
locative	*pazduśě	*pazduxu	*pazduxasъ, *pazduxaxъ*
vocative	*pazduxo	*pazduśě	*pazduxy

^* -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: па́зуха (pázuxa)
  • Russian: па́зуха (pázuxa)
  • Ukrainian: па́зуха (pázuxa)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пазоуха (pazuxa)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰰⰸⱆⱈⰰ (pazuxa)

  • Bulgarian: пазва (pazva) (in Eastern Bulgaria), пазуха (pazuha) (in Western Bulgaria)
  • Macedonian: па́зува (pázuva)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пазух, пазухо

    Latin: pazuh, pazuho

  • Slovene: pȃzduha, pȃzdiha, pȃziha, pȃzha (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pazucha
  • Polish: pazucha
  • Slovak: pazucha