Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/duxъ
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dausas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews-, variant of *dʰwes-. Cognate with Lithuanian daũsos f pl (“air”), Proto-Germanic *deuzą (“animal”).
Noun edit
- gust (of wind)
- breath (especially as manifestation of the life)
- bezъ ducha byti ― to be dead, not alive
- jьspustiti/vypustiti ducha ― to die
- soul
- spirit
- zъlъ duxъ ― evil spirit
Declension edit
Declension of *dȗxъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
See also edit
Related terms edit
- *duxati (“to blow”), *duxnǫti (“to blow up”), *dušiti (“to suffocate”)
- *dyšati (“to breath”), *dъxnǫti (“to breath, to inhale”), *dъxъ (“breath”)
- *dyxati (“to breath”), *dyxъ (“whiff”), *dyxъtěti
- *podušьka
- *duxъna (“feather-bedspread”)
Derived terms edit
- *duxota (“immateriality, transcendence”)
- *zaduxъ (“asthma, shortness of air”)
- *vъzduxъ (“air”)
- *dušiti (“to sniff, to scent”)
- *duša (“soul”)
- *bezdušьnъ (“heartless, soulless”)
- *duxovъ (“aerial, spiritual”)
- *duxovьnostь (“spirituality”)
- *duxovьnikъ (“cleric”)
- *duxovitъ (“with high spirit”)
- *oduxotvoriti (“to enchant”) < *duxъ + *tvoriti (“to create”)
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- → Romanian: duh
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dȗxъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 124: “m. o (c) ‘breath, spirit’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “duxъ duxa”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c breathing; odor (NA 97; SA 94, 156; PR 137; RPT 97, 102)”
- ^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1984), “duchъ”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 5 (drъgati – ďurъka), Wrocław: Ossolineum, →ISBN, page 84