Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lagoda

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

Alternative forms

*lagodъ (o-stem)
*lagodь (i-stem)

Etymology

Uncertain:

Vasmer and Snoj tentatively presume origin from *laga (“setup, disposition”) +‎ *-oda, with stem cognate with Lithuanian lóga (“queue, sequence, layer”), Latvian lãga (“arrangement”);
Alternatively, perhaps, related to *goditi (“to please”).

Noun

*làgoda f^[1]^[2]

accord, satisfaction, pleasure

Declension

Declension of *làgoda (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*làgoda	*làgodě	*làgody
genitive	*làgody	*làgodu	*làgodъ
dative	*làgodě	*làgodama	*làgodamъ
accusative	*làgodǫ	*làgodě	*làgody
instrumental	làgodojǫ, làgodǭ^**	*làgodama	*làgodamī
locative	*làgodě	*làgodu	làgodasъ, làgodaxъ^*
vocative	*làgodo	*làgodě	*làgody

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: лагода (lagoda)
  - Belarusian: лаго́дкі pl (lahódki) (dialectal)
  - Ukrainian: ла́года (láhoda)
  - Russian: ла́го́да (lágóda) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: лаго́да (lagóda) (obsolete)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ла̏года
  
  Latin script: lȁgoda
- Slovene: lágoda (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: lahoda
  - Czech: lahoda
- Old Polish: Łagoda (personal name)
  - Polish: łagoda (obsolete); Łagoda (personal name)
- Slovak: lahoda
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: łagoda (obsolete)
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: łagoda
  - Upper Sorbian: łahoda

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lagoda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 13
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “lagoda”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *la̋goda”