Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/suša

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

Likely, from *suxъ (< *sux-ja).

Noun

*suša f

1. drought

Inflection

Declension of *suša (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*suša	*suši	*sušę̇
genitive	*sušę̇	*sušu	*sušь
dative	*suši	*sušama	*sušamъ
accusative	*sušǫ	*suši	*sušę̇
instrumental	*sušejǫ, *sušǫ**	*sušama	*sušami
locative	*suši	*sušu	*sušasъ, *sušaxъ*
vocative	*suše	*suši	*sušę̇

^* -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:
  • Russian: су́ша (súša, “dry land”)
  • Ukrainian: су́ша (súša)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: суша (suša)

  • Bulgarian: суша (suša)
  • Macedonian: суша (suša)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: су̑ша

    Latin script: sȗša

  • Slovene: súša (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: souš (“dry land”)
  • Kashubian: suszô
  • Polish: susza

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: zushë

References

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