Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prokaza

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

Etymology

From *pro- +‎ *kaziti.

Noun

*prokaza f

1. leprosy?

Inflection

Declension of *prokaza (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*prokaza	*prokazě	*prokazy
genitive	*prokazy	*prokazu	*prokazъ
dative	*prokazě	*prokazama	*prokazamъ
accusative	*prokazǫ	*prokazě	*prokazy
instrumental	*prokazojǫ, *prokazǫ**	*prokazama	*prokazami
locative	*prokazě	*prokazu	*prokazasъ, *prokazaxъ*
vocative	*prokazo	*prokazě	*prokazy

^* -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

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: проказа (prokaza)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⱁⰽⰰⰸⰰ (prokaza)

    • → Old East Slavic: проказа (prokaza)
      • Old Ruthenian: прока́за (prokáza)
        • Belarusian: прака́за (prakáza)
        • Ukrainian: прока́за (prokáza)
      • Russian: прока́за (prokáza)
  • Bulgarian: прока̀за (prokàza)

Further reading

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “проказа”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 754
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “прока́за”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress