Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agoda

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

*àgoda (sense 1)

Etymology

From *àga (from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀgāˀ) + *-oda.

Noun

*àgoda f

2. berry, small fruit

   *čь̀rna àgoda ― whortleberry, Vaccinium myrtillus

   1. → (figuratively) cheek

      Synonyms: *līcè, *olnita

Inflection

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*àgoda	*àgodě	*àgody
genitive	*àgody	*àgodu	*àgodъ
dative	*àgodě	*àgodama	*àgodamъ
accusative	*àgodǫ	*àgodě	*àgody
instrumental	*àgodojǫ, *àgodǭ**	*àgodama	*àgodamī
locative	*àgodě	*àgodu	*àgodasъ, *àgodaxъ*
vocative	*àgodo	*àgodě	*àgody

^* -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).

Derived terms

nouns

• *agodica f (“cheek”)
• *agodina f (“berry”)
• *agodišče n (“place where the berries grow”)
• *agodьje n (“berries”)
• *agodьnica f
• *agodьnikъ m

 

adjectives

• *agodьnъ (“pertaining to berry, of berry”)

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ꙗгода (jagoda), агода (agoda)
    • Old Ruthenian: ꙗ҆́года (ja҆́hoda)
      • Belarusian: я́гада (jáhada)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: я́года (jáhoda)
      • Ukrainian: я́года (jáhoda)
    • Russian: я́года (jágoda)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: агода (agoda) (Sava's Book)

    • → Romanian: agudă (“mulberry”)
  • Bulgarian: я́года (jágoda, “strawberry”)
  • Macedonian: ја́года (jágoda, “strawberry”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ја̏года (“strawberry”)

    Latin script: jȁgoda (“strawberry”)

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): jȁgoda (“blackberry”)
  • Slovene: jágoda (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jahoda (“strawberry”)
    • Czech: jahoda (“strawberry”)
  • Polabian: *joďödă
  • Old Polish: jagoda
    • Polish: jagoda
  • Old Slovak: jahoda
    • Pannonian Rusyn: ягода (jahoda, “mulberry”)
    • Slovak: jahoda (“strawberry”)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: jagòda
    • Slovincian: jagôda
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jahoda
    • Lower Sorbian: jagoda

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “ягода”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ягода”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress