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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gnojь

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-Indo-European *gʰnoyH-, from *gʰneyH-. Equivalent to the o-grade of *gňiti +‎ *-ъ.

Noun

*gnȍjь m[1][2]

  1. pus, manure

Inflection
Declension of *gnȍjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *gnȍjь *gnȍja *gnȍji
genitive *gnȍja *gnojù *gnòjь
dative *gnȍju *gnojemà *gnojèmъ
accusative *gnȍjь *gnȍja *gnȍję̇
instrumental *gnȍjьmь, *gnȍjemь* *gnojemà *gnojí
locative *gnȍji *gnojù *gnojĩxъ
vocative *gnoju *gnȍja *gnȍji
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: гной (hnoj)
    • Russian: гной (gnoj)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: гній (hnij)
    • Ukrainian: гній (hnij)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: гнои (gnoi)
      Glagolitic script: ⰳⱀⱁⰻ (gnoi)
    • Bulgarian: гной (gnoj)
    • Macedonian: гној (gnoj)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: гно̑ј
      Latin script: gnȏj
      • Chakavian (Orbanići): [Term?]
      • Chakavian (Vrgada): gńȏj
    • Slovene: gnoj
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: hnój
      • Czech: hnůj
        • Bohemian (Chod dialect): hnuj
    • Polish: gnój
    • Slovak: hnoj
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: hnój
      • Lower Sorbian: gnoj
  • Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: gunoi

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

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gnȏjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 170: “m. jo (c) ‘pus, manure’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “gnojь gnoja”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 82; PR 137)”
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