Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rozga

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *rozgāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)resg- (“to weave, to plait”). Cognates include Latin restis.

Noun

*rozga f

1. twig, branch

Inflection

Declension of *rozga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rozga	*rozdzě	*rozgy
genitive	*rozgy	*rozgu	*rozgъ
dative	*rozdzě	*rozgama	*rozgamъ
accusative	*rozgǫ	*rozdzě	*rozgy
instrumental	*rozgojǫ, *rozgǫ**	*rozgama	*rozgami
locative	*rozdzě	*rozgu	*rozgasъ, *rozgaxъ*
vocative	*rozgo	*rozdzě	*rozgy

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ро́ска (róska)
  • Russian: ро́зга (rózga)
  • Ukrainian: рі́зка (rízka)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: розга (rozga)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⱁⰸⰳⰰ (rozga)

  • Bulgarian: розга́ (rozgá) (obsolete)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ро̏зга

    Latin script: rozga

  • Slovene: rọ̑zga (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: rózha
    • Czech: růzhа
  • Polabian: rǘzga
  • Polish: rózga
  • Slovak: rázga
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: rozga

Further reading

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