Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bazъ

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Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bāˀźas, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

Noun

*bazъ m

Sambucus

Inflection

Declension of *bazъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bazъ	*baza	*bazi
genitive	*baza	*bazu	*bazъ
dative	*bazu	*bazoma	*bazomъ
accusative	*bazъ	*baza	*bazy
instrumental	bazъmь, bazomь^*	*bazoma	*bazy
locative	*bazě	*bazu	*bazěxъ
vocative	*baze	*baza	*bazi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

*bazovъ

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: бас (bas, “Sambucus”)
- Ukrainian: баз (baz), базни́к (baznýk, “Sambucus ebulus L.; Syringa vulgaris”)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: база́к (bazák), базани́к (bazaník), базано́к (bazanók), базо́вина (bazóvina) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian: баз
  - ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: ба̀зга, базовина
West Slavic:
- Polish: bazia
- Slovak: baza
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: baz (“Sambucus nigra”)

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bazъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 172