Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gnojь

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

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰnoyH-, from *gʰneyH-. Equivalent to the o-grade of *gňiti +‎ *-ъ.

Noun

*gnȍjь m

1. pus, manure

Inflection

Declension of *gnȍjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gnȍjь	*gnȍja	*gnȍji
genitive	*gnȍja	*gnojù	*gnòjь
dative	*gnȍju	*gnojemà	*gnojèmъ
accusative	*gnȍjь	*gnȍja	*gnȍję̇
instrumental	*gnȍjьmь, *gnȍjemь*	*gnojemà	*gnojí
locative	*gnȍji	*gnojù	*gnojĩxъ
vocative	*gnoju	*gnȍja	*gnȍji

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *gňilъ
• *gňiti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: гной (hnoj)
  • Russian: гной (gnoj)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: гній (hnij)
  • Ukrainian: гній (hnij)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: гнои (gnoi)

    Glagolitic script: ⰳⱀⱁⰻ (gnoi)

  • Bulgarian: гной (gnoj)
  • Macedonian: гној (gnoj)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гно̑ј

    Latin script: gnȏj

    • Chakavian (Orbanići): [Term?]
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): gńȏj
  • Slovene: gnọ̑j (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hnój
    • Czech: hnůj
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): hnuj
  • Old Polish: gnój
    • Polish: gnój
    • Silesian: gnōj
  • Polabian: gnüj
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: gnój
  • Slovak: hnoj
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hnój
    • Lower Sorbian: gnoj

• Non-Slavic:
• → Hungarian: ganéj
• → Romanian: gunoi

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гной”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress