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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gnězdo

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *nisdá, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian lìzdas, Latvian ligzds, ligzda. The Slavic forms show a different anlaut from the Baltic forms; the Slavic forms have gained an initial *gn- on the basis of some other model such as *gnojь (“manure, pus”), though which particular word was used as a model is hard to say. The choice of *gnojь (“manure, pus”) also has an possible advantage in that it can account for the presence of *ě in *gnězdo, otherwise an anomaly. Skok instead explains the anomalous cluster and the many reflexes in Serbo-Croatian as resulting from various dissimilations of the dental consonants. Mel’nyčuk suggests the initial part of the word was reconstructed on the model of *gněti or its precursor.

Noun

*gně̄zdò n [1][2]

  1. nest

Inflection
Declension of *gně̄zdò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *gně̄zdò *gně̃zdě *gně̄zdà
Accusative *gně̄zdò *gně̃zdě *gně̄zdà
Genitive *gně̄zdà *gně̄zdù *gně̃zdъ
Locative *gně̄zdě̀ *gně̄zdù *gně̃zděxъ
Dative *gně̄zdù *gně̄zdòma *gně̄zdòmъ
Instrumental *gně̄zdъ̀mь, *gně̄zdòmь* *gně̄zdòma *gně̃zdy
Vocative *gně̄zdò *gně̃zdě *gně̄zdà
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*gně̄zdò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 169: “n. o (b) ‘nest’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “gnězdo, pl. gnězda / gnězda”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b feather (NA 105; SA 156; PR 135)”
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