Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъrčь

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

Possibly an expressive variant of Proto-Slavic *kъrčь (“spasm”) or alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, to twine”) + *-čь, akin to Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ (“hump”).

Noun

*gъ̀rčь m

1. cramp, spasm
2. gnarl

Alternative forms

• *gъ̀rča (jā-stem)

Declension

Declension of *gъrčь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gъrčь	*gъrča	*gъrči
genitive	*gъrča	*gъrču	*gъrčь
dative	*gъrču	*gъrčema	*gъrčemъ
accusative	*gъrčь	*gъrča	*gъrčę̇
instrumental	*gъrčьmь, *gъrčemь*	*gъrčema	*gъrči
locative	*gъrči	*gъrču	*gъrčixъ
vocative	*gъrču	*gъrča	*gъrči

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *gъrčiti (“to convulse”)
• *gъrčavъ (“convulsive”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: ги́рч'а (hýrčʺa) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: гърч (gǎrč)
  • Macedonian: грч (grč)
  • Serbo-Croatian::

    Cyrillic script: гр̏ч; грча

    Latin script: gȑč; grča

  • Slovene: gŕč (tonal orthography); gŕča
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hrč f, hrča (dialectal)
  • Slovak: hrča (dialectal)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: görcs

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gъrčь/*gъrčа”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 202
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гърча се”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 304