Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orzkošь

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

Alternative forms

• *orzkoša

Etymology

Erotic cock imagery with *orz-, see *koxati (“to make love to”), *kokošь (“hen”), *kokotъ (“rooster”), Proto-Slavic *kočanъ meaning “head of cabbage”, “cob of corn”, “penis” across Slavic, and compare Proto-Slavic *kura (“hen”) and the expression Russian де́лать кому́-то ку́ры (délatʹ komú-to kúry) which is from French faire la cour but acquired a rooster-reminiscent double-entendre.

Noun

*orzkošь f

1. voluptuousness, pleasure, orgasm

Inflection

Declension of *orzkošь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*orzkošь	*orzkoši	*orzkoši
genitive	*orzkoši	*orzkošьju, *orzkošu*	*orzkošьjь, *orzkoši*
dative	*orzkoši	*orzkošьma	*orzkošьmъ
accusative	*orzkošь	*orzkoši	*orzkoši
instrumental	*orzkošьjǫ, *orzkošǫ*	*orzkošьma	*orzkošьmi
locative	*orzkoši	*orzkošьju, *orzkošu*	*orzkošьxъ
vocative	*orzkoši	*orzkoši	*orzkoši

^* 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:
  • Old East Slavic: *розкошь (*rozkošĭ), *роскошь (*roskošĭ)
    • Belarusian: раско́ша (raskóša)
    • Russian: ро́скошь (róskošʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ро́зкіш (rózkiš)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: раскошь (raskošĭ)
  • Bulgarian: разко́ш (razkóš)
  • Macedonian: раскош (raskoš)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: ра́скош
    • Latin script: ráskoš
  • Slovene: razkȏš
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: rozkoš
  • Kashubian: rozkòsz
  • Polish: rozkosz
  • Slovak: rozkoš

Related terms

• *orzkoxati impf (“to revel, to orgasm”)
• *orzkošiti pf (“to revel, to orgasm”)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ро́скошь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/orzkošь”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, pages 520–521
• Jakobson, Roman (1958) “While Reading Vasmer’s Dictionary”, in Selected Writings II. Words and Language., Paris: Mouton, published 1971, page 639