Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/blizna
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰliǵ-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to dazzle, to strike”). Morphologically *bliz- + *-na. Cognate with Latin flīgere.
Noun edit
*blizna f[1]
Declension edit
Declension of *blizna (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *blizna | *blizně | *blizny |
genitive | *blizny | *bliznu | *bliznъ |
dative | *blizně | *bliznama | *bliznamъ |
accusative | *bliznǫ | *blizně | *blizny |
instrumental | *bliznojǫ, *bliznǫ** | *bliznama | *bliznami |
locative | *blizně | *bliznu | *bliznasъ, *bliznaxъ* |
vocative | *blizno | *blizně | *blizny |
* -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).
Alternative forms edit
Related terms edit
- *blizъ (“near, proximate”)
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “близна́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*blizna; *blizno”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 45: “f. ā; n. o”