Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-ežь
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editAccording to Matasović, the origin of the suffix is unclear. He dismisses an old theory due to Vaillant for borrowing ultimately from Vulgar Latin -āgium, because there are not any loanwords in proto-Slavic which display this suffix.
Suffix
edit*-ežь m
- Deverbal, forming action nouns.
- From verbs ending in -C-
- From verbs ending in -i-
- From verbs ending in -a-
- Deadjectival, forming abstract or agent nouns.
Usage notes
edit- Usually it's not used with roots ending in g/k/x/s/z.
- Words derived with *-ežь sometimes have pejorative connotation.
Declension
editDeclension of *-ežь (soft o-stem)
Alternative forms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bodežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 152
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gorěžь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 43
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grabežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 96
References
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Šekli, Matej (2012) “Besedotvorni pomeni samostalniških izpeljank v praslovanščini”, in Philological Studies[1] (in Slovene), volume 10, number 1, Skopje, Perm, Ljubljana, Zagreb, pages 115–32
- Matasović, Ranko (2014) “*-ežь < *-ezja-”, in Slavic Nominal Word-formation: Proto-Indo-European Origins and Historical Development (Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft; 3), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 130