Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/storža

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

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *sterg-.

Noun

*storža f

1. guard, watch

Inflection

Declension of *storža (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*storža	*storži	*storžę̇
genitive	*storžę̇	*storžu	*storžь
dative	*storži	*storžama	*storžamъ
accusative	*storžǫ	*storži	*storžę̇
instrumental	*storžejǫ, *storžǫ**	*storžama	*storžami
locative	*storži	*storžu	*storžasъ, *storžaxъ*
vocative	*storže	*storži	*storžę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

noun

• *storžь

 

verbs

• *sterťi
• *storžiti

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сторожа (storoža)
    • Old Ruthenian: сторо́жа (storóža), старо́жа (staróža)
      • Ukrainian: сторо́жа (storóža)
    • Russian: сторо́жа (storóža) (obsolete)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: стража (straža)

    • → Russian: стра́жа (stráža)
  • Bulgarian: стража (straža)
  • Macedonian: стража (straža)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: стра̑жа

    Latin script: strȃža

  • Slovene: stráža (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: strážě
    • Czech: stráž
    • → Polish: straż
  • Kashubian: starża
  • Old Polish: stróża
  • Slovak: stráž

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стра́жа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress