Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ěďa

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 *ěda/*ědъ/*ědь (“food”) +‎ *-ja or *ě̀sti (“to eat”) +‎ *-ja. According to Trubachyov: inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ḗˀdjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édyeh₂ (“food related, edible”), from *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Compare Lithuanian ė́džia (“horse food”) and Sanskrit अद्य (ādyá, “edible”), Latin inedia (“fasting”).

Noun

*ě̀ďa f^[1]^[2]

eating, eating activity
what is eaten, food, nourishment

Declension

Declension of *ě̀ďa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ě̀ďa	*ě̀ďi	*ě̀ďę̇
genitive	*ě̀ďę̇	*ě̀ďu	*ě̀ďь
dative	*ě̀ďī	*ě̀ďama	*ě̀ďāmъ
accusative	*ě̀ďǫ	*ě̀ďi	*ě̀ďę̇
instrumental	ě̀ďējǫ, ě̀ďǭ^*	*ě̀ďama	*ě̀ďāmī
locative	*ě̀ďī	*ě̀ďu	*ě̀ďāsъ
vocative	*ě̀ďe	*ě̀ďi	*ě̀ďę̇

^* 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:
- Old East Slavic: *ѣжа (*jěža)
  - Old Ruthenian: *ѣжа (*jěža)
  - Belarusian: е́жа (jéža)
  - Ukrainian: ї́жа (jíža); є́жа (jéža) (dialectal)
- Russian: е́жа (jéža) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: ꙗжда (jažda)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: је̏ђа, језа (dialectal)
  
  Latin script: jȅđa, jeza (dialectal)
- Slovene: jéja (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- ⇒ Czech: objeza, objedza (dialectal)
- Old Polish: jedza
  - Polish: jedza (dialectal)
- Slovak: jedza (dialectal)
  - ⇒ Slovak: objedza
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: jěza

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ědja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 40
^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1991), “ěďa”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 6 (e! – ěždžь), Wrocław: Ossolineum, →ISBN, page 129