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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/luža

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

Cognate with Latvian l̨ugа, luga Lithuanian liū̃gnas, liū̃gas, lūgas, Ancient Greek Λούγεον (Loúgeon, “swamp”).

Noun

*lùža f [1][2]

  1. puddle, pool

Declension
Declension of *lùža (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *lùža *lùži *lùžę̇
Accusative *lùžǫ *lùži *lùžę̇
Genitive *lùžę̇ *lùžu *lùžь
Locative *lùžī *lùžu *lùžāsъ
Dative *lùžī *lùžama *lùžāmъ
Instrumental *lùžējǫ, *lùžǭ* *lùžama *lùžāmī
Vocative *lùže *lùži *lùžę̇
* 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:
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic: лужа (luža)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: лу̏жа
      Latin: lȕža
    • Slovene: lúža (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: louže
    • Polabian: lau̯ze
    • Polish: łuża (dialectal)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: łuža
      • Upper Sorbian: łuža

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lùža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 293: “f. jā (a) ‘puddle, pool’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “lužja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 155)”
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