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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/droždža
Proto-Slavic
    
    Etymology
    
From *drogъ + *-zgъ + *-ja, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dragjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrágʰ-yeh₂, from *dʰrā́ks.[1][2]
Inflection
    
Declension of *droždža (soft a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *droždža | *droždži | *droždžę̇ | 
| genitive | *droždžę̇ | *droždžu | *droždžь | 
| dative | *droždži | *droždžama | *droždžamъ | 
| accusative | *droždžǫ | *droždži | *droždžę̇ | 
| instrumental | *droždžejǫ, *droždžǫ** | *droždžama | *droždžami | 
| locative | *droždži | *droždžu | *droždžasъ, *droždžaxъ* | 
| vocative | *droždže | *droždži | *droždžę̇ | 
* -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).
** 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
    
- Old East Slavic: дрожди pl (droždi), дрождиꙗ pl (droždija), Дрожжа (Drožža), Дрозжа (Drozža)
 - South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: дрождиѩ f pl (droždiję)
 - Bulgarian: дро́жди pl (dróždi)
 - Macedonian:
 - Serbo-Croatian: дро̀жда, drožđe n
 - Slovene: dróžja, drožje f pl, drožȋ f pl, drožȇ f pl
 
 - West Slavic:
 
Further reading
    
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дрожжи”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
 - Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “дрожжи”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 270
 - Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*droždža, *droždži, *droždžьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 128
 - Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “дрожжи”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
 
References
    
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*droždža, *droždžьje”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 121: “Since the word is possibly non-Indo-European, we might just as well reconstruct *dʰragʰ-i-, with *a.”
 - Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*dragjō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99: “*dʰragʰ-ieh₂-”
 - Derksen, Rick (2008) “*droždža, *droždžьje”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 121
 
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