Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agodica
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom *àgoda (“berry”) + *-ica.
Noun
edit*agodica f[1]
- (East and South Slavic, figuratively) cheek
Inflection
editDeclension of *agodica (soft a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *agodica | *agodici | *agodicę̇ |
genitive | *agodicę̇ | *agodicu | *agodicь |
dative | *agodici | *agodicama | *agodicamъ |
accusative | *agodicǫ | *agodici | *agodicę̇ |
instrumental | *agodicejǫ, *agodicǫ** | *agodicama | *agodicami |
locative | *agodici | *agodicu | *agodicasъ, *agodicaxъ* |
vocative | *agodice | *agodici | *agodicę̇ |
* -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).
** 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
editnouns
adjectives
- *agodьnъ (“pertaining to berry, of berry”)
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
References
edit- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agodica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 59