Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rojь

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-Balto-Slavic *rajas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃royH-o-s. Cognate with Latin rivus (“brook, stream”).

Noun

*ròjь m

1. swarm

Declension

Declension of *ròjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ròjь	*rojà	*rojì
genitive	*rojà	*rojù	*ròjь
dative	*rojù	*rojèma	*ròjemъ
accusative	*ròjь	*rojà	*roję̇̀
instrumental	*rojь̀mь, *rojèmь*	*rojèma	*ròji
locative	*rojì	*rojù	*ròjixъ
vocative	*roju	*rojà	*rojì

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

Related terms

• *rějati
• *rěka
• *rinǫti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рои (roi)
    • Old Ruthenian: рой (roj)
      • Belarusian: рой (roj)
      • Ukrainian: рій (rij)
    • Russian: рой (roj)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: рои (roi)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⱁⰻ (roi)

  • Bulgarian: рой (roj)
  • Macedonian: рој (roj)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ро̑ј

    Latin script: rȏj

  • Slovene: ròj
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: roj
    • Czech: roj
  • Polish: rój
  • Slovak: roj
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: roj
    • Upper Sorbian: rój

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: raj
  • → Romanian: roi

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ròjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рой”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress