Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oržьnъ

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

• *oržьnь

Etymology

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Noun

*oržьnъ m

1. stake, poker, spit, skewer

Inflection

Declension of *oržьnъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*oržьnъ	*oržьna	*oržьni
genitive	*oržьna	*oržьnu	*oržьnъ
dative	*oržьnu	*oržьnoma	*oržьnomъ
accusative	*oržьnъ	*oržьna	*oržьny
instrumental	*oržьnъmь, *oržьnomь*	*oržьnoma	*oržьny
locative	*oržьně	*oržьnu	*oržьněxъ
vocative	*oržьne	*oržьna	*oržьni

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: рожо́н (rožón)
  • Ukrainian: роже́н (rožén)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Russian Church Slavonic ражьнъ, раждьнъ (ražĭnŭ, raždĭnŭ)

  • Bulgarian: ръже́н (rǎžén)
  • Macedonian: ражен (ražen)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ра́жањ

    Latin script: rážanj

  • Slovene: rážənj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: rožeň
  • Old Polish: rożen
    • Polish: rożen
  • Slovak: ražeň
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: rоžеń, rоžоn

    Upper Sorbian: rоžеń

Further reading

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