Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gręzь

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 *gręzti (“to sink”) +‎ *-ь.

Noun

*grę̑zь f

1. mud, dirt

Declension

Declension of *grę̑zь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*grę̑zь	*grę̑zi	*grę̑zi
genitive	*gręzí	*gręzьjù, *gręžu*	*gręzь̀jь
dative	*grę̑zi	*gręzьmà	*grę̑zьmъ
accusative	*grę̑zь	*grę̑zi	*grę̑zi
instrumental	*gręzьjǫ́	*gręzьmà	*gręzьmì
locative	*gręzí	*gręzьjù, *gręžu*	*grę̑zьxъ
vocative	*gręzi	*grę̑zi	*grę̑zi

^* 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).

Related terms

• *gręza (“mud, dirt, mire”)
• *gręziti (“to sink”)
• *gręzti (“to sink”)
• *grę̑znǫti (“to sink”)
• *grǫziti (“to sink”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: грѣзъ (grězŭ), грѧзь (gręzĭ)
    • Belarusian: гразь (hrazʹ)
    • Russian: грязь (grjazʹ)
    • Ukrainian: грязь (hrjazʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: грѧзъ (gręzŭ)

  • Bulgarian: грез (grez)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гре̑з

    Latin script: grȇz

  • Slovene: grẹ̑z (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hřez (Jungmann's 18th-century dictionary)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gręzь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 125
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “грязь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress