Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/utěxa

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 *u- +‎ *těšiti +‎ *-a.

Noun

*utěxa f

1. consolation

Declension

Declension of *utěxa (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*utěxa	*utěśě	*utěxy
genitive	*utěxy	*utěxu	*utěxъ
dative	*utěśě	*utěxama	*utěxamъ
accusative	*utěxǫ	*utěśě	*utěxy
instrumental	*utěxojǫ, *utěxǫ**	*utěxama	*utěxami
locative	*utěśě	*utěxu	*utěxasъ, *utěxaxъ*
vocative	*utěxo	*utěśě	*utěxy

^* -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

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: утѣ́ха (utě́xa), втѣ́ха (vtě́xa)
    • Belarusian: уце́ха (ucjéxa)
    • Ukrainian: вті́ха (vtíxa), уті́ха (utíxa)
  • Russian: уте́ха (utéxa)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: утѐха (utèha)
  • Macedonian: утеха (uteha)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: у̏тјеха

    Latin script: ȕtjeha

  • Slovene: utéha (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: útěcha
  • Kashubian: ùcecha
  • Old Polish: uciecha
    • Polish: uciecha
  • Slovak: útecha

Further reading

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