Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rajь

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

Probably borrowed from an Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”).

Noun

*ràjь m

1. paradise

Declension

Declension of *ràjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ràjь	*ràja	*ràji
genitive	*ràja	*ràju	*ràjь
dative	*ràju	*ràjema	*ràjēmъ
accusative	*ràjь	*ràja	*ràję̇
instrumental	*ràjьmь, *ràjemь*	*ràjema	*ràjī
locative	*ràji	*ràju	*ràjīxъ
vocative	*ràju	*ràja	*ràji

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

Related terms

• *radǫga (“rainbow”) (in East Slavic, prefix *ra- linked by folk etymology with *rajь)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: раи (rai)
    • Old Ruthenian: рай (raj)
      • Belarusian: рай (raj)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: рай (raj)
      • Ukrainian: рай (raj)
    • Russian: рай (raj)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: раи (rai)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⰰⰹ (rai)

  • Bulgarian: рай (raj)
  • Macedonian: рај (raj)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ра̑ј

    Latin script: rȃj

  • Slovene: raj
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ráj
  • Kashubian: rôj
  • Polish: raj
  • Slovak: raj
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: raj
    • Upper Sorbian: raj

• → Romanian: rai

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рай”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎^[1], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 533