Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/strъjь

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

• *stryjь
• *strycь

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *strujas. Cognate with Lithuanian strùjus (“uncle, old man”).

Vasmer says that it can be from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (cf. Latin patruus). Morphologically ptr->ttr->str + Proto-Balto-Slavic *-jas.

Noun

*strъjь m

1. uncle

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стрꙑи (stryi), стръи (stry)
    • Old Ruthenian: стрый (stryj), стрий (strij)
      • Belarusian: (dialectal) стрый (stryj)
      • Ukrainian: (dialectal) стрий (stryj)
    • Russian: (dialectal, archaic) стрый (stryj)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: стрꙑи (stryi) (Serbian recension)
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: стри́ко (stríko), стри́ка (stríka)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: стрико (striko)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: стри̑ц

    Latin script: strȋc

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): strĩc
  • ⇒ Slovene: stríc (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Czech: strýc (strъjьcь)
  • Polabian: stråjă
  • Polish: stryj
  • ⇒ Slovak: strýc (strъjьcь)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: tryk

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 470
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “строй”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress