Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mazь

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

• *mazъ m

Etymology

From *mazati (“to smear, to anoint, to oil”) +‎ *-ь.

Noun

*mȃzь f

1. grease

Inflection

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mȃzь	*mȃzi	*mȃzi
genitive	*mazí	*mazьjù, *mažu*	*mazь̀jь
dative	*mȃzi	*mazьmà	*mȃzьmъ
accusative	*mȃzь	*mȃzi	*mȃzi
instrumental	*mazьjǫ́	*mazьmà	*mazьmì
locative	*mazí	*mazьjù, *mažu*	*mȃzьxъ
vocative	*mazi	*mȃzi	*mȃzi

^* 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

• *maslo (“oil, butter”)
• *mastь (“ointment”)
• *mazati (“to oil, annoint, smear”)
• *mazъ (“grease, ointment”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мазь (mazĭ)
    • Belarusian: мазь f (mazʹ)
    • Russian: маз m (maz), мазь f (mazʹ)
      • → Bezhta: мази (mazi)
      • → Yakut: маас (maas)
    • Ukrainian: мазь f (mazʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Old Cyrillic script: мазь f (mazĭ)
  • Bulgarian: мазь (mazʹ)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)

    Cyrillic script: маз

    Latin script: mȃz

  • Slovene: maz
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: maz m
  • Polish: maź f
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: maz f
    • Upper Sorbian: maz m (dialectal)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mȃzь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 304
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мазь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress