Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/koža

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 edit

Etymology edit

From *koza (“goat”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun edit

*kòža f^[1]^[2]

skin
leather

Declension edit

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kòža	*kòži	*kòžę̇
genitive	*kòžę̇	*kòžu	*kòžь
dative	*kòži	*kòžama	*kòžamъ
accusative	*kòžǫ	*kòži	*kòžę̇
instrumental	kòžejǫ, kòžǫ^**	*kòžama	*kòžamī
locative	*kòži	*kòžu	kòžasъ, kòžaxъ^*
vocative	*kože	*kòži	*kòžę̇

^* -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 edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: кожа (koža)
  - Belarusian: ко́жа (kóža)
  - Russian: ко́жа (kóža)
  - Ukrainian: ко́жа (kóža)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: кожа (koža)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰽⱁⰶⰰ (koža)
- Bulgarian: ко́жа (kóža)
- Macedonian: ко́жа (kóža)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ко̏жа
  
  Latin script: kȍža
- Slovene: kọ́ža (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kóžě
  - Czech: kůže
- Old Polish: koża
  - ⇒ Polish: kożuch
- Slovak: koža
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: koža
  - Lower Sorbian: kóža

Non-Slavic:

→ Byzantine Greek: Κοζάνη (Kozánē)
- Greek: Κοζάνη (Kozáni)
→ Aromanian: coaji
→ Megleno-Romanian: coajă
→ Romanian: coajă

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kòža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 242: “f. jā (b) ‘skin, leather’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “kozja kozjě”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b* (SA 138; PR 135; MP 19)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kòža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 242: “f. jā (b) ‘skin, leather’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “kozja kozjě”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b* (SA 138; PR 135; MP 19)”

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