Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gǫšča

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Deadjectival form of *gǫstъ (“dense”) +‎ *-ja or a nomen acti of *gǫstiti (“to condense”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*gǫ̃šča f

1. sediment, compression

Inflection

Declension of *gǫ̃šča (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gǫ̃šča	*gǫ̃šči	*gǫ̃ščę̇
genitive	*gǫ̃ščę̇	*gǫ̃šču	*gǫ̃ščь
dative	*gǫ̃šči	*gǫ̃ščama	*gǫ̃ščamъ
accusative	*gǫ̃ščǫ	*gǫ̃šči	*gǫ̃ščę̇
instrumental	*gǫ̃ščejǫ, *gǫ̃ščǫ**	*gǫ̃ščama	*gǫ̃ščamī
locative	*gǫ̃šči	*gǫ̃šču	*gǫ̃ščasъ, *gǫ̃ščaxъ*
vocative	*gǫšče	*gǫ̃šči	*gǫ̃ščę̇

^* -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).

Alternative forms

• *gǫščь

Related terms

• *gǫstota (“density”)
• *gǫstyni (“dense forrest”)
• *gostostь (“denseness”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: гу́ща (gúšča)
  • Ukrainian: гу́ща (húšča)
  • Belarusian: гушча (hušča)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гу̏шта

    Latin script: gȕšta

  • Slovene: gọ́šča (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: houšť
  • Slovak: húšť

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gǫšča/*gǫščь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 89