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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/droždža

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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

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Etymology

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From *drogъ +‎ *-zgъ +‎ *-ja, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dragjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrágʰ-yeh₂, from *dʰrā́ks.[1][2]

Noun

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*droždža f[3]

  1. dregs, sediment
  2. yeast

Inflection

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See also

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дрожжи”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “дрожжи”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 270
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*droždža, *droždži, *droždžьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 128
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “дрожжи”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*droždža, *droždžьje”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 121:Since the word is possibly non-Indo-European, we might just as well reconstruct *dʰragʰ-i-, with *a.
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*dragjō-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99:*dʰragʰ-ieh₂-
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*droždža, *droždžьje”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 121