Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bazъ

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-Balto-Slavic *bāˀźas, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

Noun

*bazъ m

1. Sambucus

Inflection

Declension of *bazъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bazъ	*baza	*bazi
genitive	*baza	*bazu	*bazъ
dative	*bazu	*bazoma	*bazomъ
accusative	*bazъ	*baza	*bazy
instrumental	*bazъmь, *bazomь*	*bazoma	*bazy
locative	*bazě	*bazu	*bazěxъ
vocative	*baze	*baza	*bazi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

See also

• *buzъ, *buzina
• *bъzъ

Derived terms

• *bazovъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: бас (bas, “Sambucus”)
  • Ukrainian: баз (baz), базни́к (baznýk, “Sambucus ebulus L.; Syringa vulgaris”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: база́к (bazák), базани́к (bazaník), базано́к (bazanók), базо́вина (bazóvina) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian: баз
    • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: ба̀зга, базовина
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: bazia
  • Slovak: baza
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: baz (“Sambucus nigra”)

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bazъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 172