Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dereza

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

Alternative forms

• *derezga

Etymology

Parsable as *derti (“to tear”) +‎ *-eza respectively +‎ *-ezga, but it is doubtful at which language stage these suffixes were still present, between Common Slavic and an imagined Proto-Indo-European *der-egh-.

Noun

*dereza f

1. branchy covering, bundle of woody material

Inflection

Declension of *dereza (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dereza	*derezě	*derezy
genitive	*derezy	*derezu	*derezъ
dative	*derezě	*derezama	*derezamъ
accusative	*derezǫ	*derezě	*derezy
instrumental	*derezojǫ, *derezǫ**	*derezama	*derezami
locative	*derezě	*derezu	*derezasъ, *derezaxъ*
vocative	*derezo	*derezě	*derezy

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: дзераза́ (dzjerazá), дзяразá (dzjarazá), дерезá (djerjezá)
  • Russian: дереза́ (derezá), дерюза (derjuza)
  • Ukrainian: дереза́ (derezá), дерезка (derezka), дерюза (derjuza)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дере́за, дѐрезга

    Latin script: deréza, dèrezga

  • Slovene: deréza
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: derázka, deryzka (Hanakian dialect)

References

• Anikin, A. E. (2019) “дереза́”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 13 (два – дигло), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 236