Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pizda

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *pīˀsdāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *písdeh₂ (“vulva”), from *h₁epi (“upon, by”) + *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also *sěděti (“to sit”)), i.e. originally an euphemism meaning "what one sits on".

Cognate with Old Prussian peisda (“ass”), Lithuanian pyzdà and Latvian pīzda.

Noun

*pīzdà f

1. vulva

Inflection

Declension of *pīzdà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pīzdà	*pĩzdě	*pīzdỳ
Accusative	*pīzdǫ̀	*pĩzdě	*pīzdỳ
Genitive	*pīzdỳ	*pīzdù	*pĩzdъ
Locative	*pīzdě̀	*pīzdù	*pīzdàsъ, *pīzdàxъ*
Dative	*pīzdě̀	*pīzdàma	*pīzdàmъ
Instrumental	*pīzdòjǫ, *pĩzdǫ**	*pīzdàma	*pīzdàmī
Vocative	*pizdo	*pĩzdě	*pīzdỳ

^* -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: пізда́ (pizdá)
  • Russian: пизда́ (pizdá)
  • Ukrainian: пизда́ (pyzdá)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: пи́зда

    Latin: pízda

  • Slovene: pízda, pȋzda (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pizda
  • Polabian: paizdă
  • Polish: pizda
  • Slovak: pizda
• → Romanian: pizdă

Further reading

• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q., editors (1997) Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 507
• “pyzda” in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė