Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gǫzъ

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-Indo-European *gonǵ-, *gouǵ- (“lump”). Cognate with Ancient Greek γογγῠ́λος (gongúlos, “round”), Old Prussian gunsix (“bump”) (? < Polish *gązik), Lithuanian gū́žis (“cabbage head”), Albanian gungë (“hump, lump”), Old Norse kǫngull (“cluster, bunch”).

Noun

*gǫzъ m

1. ass, buttock, bump

Alternative forms

• *gǫza f, *guzъ m

Derived terms

• *gǫzati
• *gǫzyrь
• *gǫzьnъ, *gǫzьno
• ? *gǫžь
  • *gǫžьvь, *gǫžьva

Declension

Declension of *gǫzъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gǫzъ	*gǫza	*gǫzi
genitive	*gǫza	*gǫzu	*gǫzъ
dative	*gǫzu	*gǫzoma	*gǫzomъ
accusative	*gǫzъ	*gǫza	*gǫzy
instrumental	*gǫzъmь, *gǫzomь*	*gǫzoma	*gǫzy
locative	*gǫzě	*gǫzu	*gǫzěxъ
vocative	*gǫze	*gǫza	*gǫzi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: гуз (huz, “bump”); гузэ́ pl (huzé, “glands”) (dialectal)
    • Russian: гуз (guz, “ass, buttock; bottom of the sheaf; thick bottom of the tree; tumour; narrow long strip”), гу́за f (gúza, “wrinkle, crease, pleat”), гуза́ f (guzá), гузо́ n (guzó, “bottom of the sheaf, thick bottom of the tree”); гу́зка f (gúzka, “rump (of a bird); ass”) (dialectal); гузно n (guzno)
    • Old Ukrainian: гузна f (huzna), гузица f (huzica, “ass”)
      • Ukrainian: гуза́ f (huzá, “stern, rear of the boat; ass”); гу́зка f (húzka, “egg blunt end; rump (of a bird); callus; wart; lipoma; bottom of the ochipok”), гу́зно n (húzno, “butt, rump, ass”), гузи́р m (huzýr, “lower part of a sheaf; place where a sack is tied”)
  • Old Novgorodian: гꙋска f (guska)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Bulgarian: гъз (gǎz, “ass, buttocks, anus”); гъс (gǎs) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: газ (gaz, “ass, butt, buttocks”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гу̑з (“ass; egg blunt end”), гу́за f (“butt; crease”); гу̀зица f (“butt”)

    Latin script: gȗz (“ass; egg blunt end”), gúza f (“butt; crease”); gùzica f (“butt”)

  • Slovene: góza f (“butt”), gúza f (“butt; crease; wrinkle”)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: huza f (“tailbone”), huzo n (“rump (of a bird)”)
  • Polish: gąz (obsolete); guz (“bump, tumour; clothing button”)
  • Slovincian: gúz (“bump”)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гуз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress