Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tьzъ

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 *tь +‎ *-zъ.

Noun

*tьzъ m

1. namesake (person, place or thing having the same name as another)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тьзъ (tĭzŭ), тезъ (tezŭ), тозъ (tozŭ)
    • Russian: тёза (tjóza), тезь (tezʹ) (dialectal); те́зя (tézja) (obsolete)
    • ⇒ Old East Slavic: *тьзъка (*tĭzŭka)
      • Old Ruthenian: *те́зка (*tézka)
        • Belarusian: цёзка (cjózka)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: те́зко (tézko)
        • Ukrainian: те́зка (tézka), тезко́ (tezkó)
      • Russian: тёзка (tjózka)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: тьзица (tĭzica) (hapax)
    • Church Slavonic: тьзъ m (tĭzŭ), тьзица f (tĭzica) (Russian recension)

• → Romanian: tiz

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1973) “теза”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 4 (Т – Ящур), Moscow: Progress, page 35
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “тёзка”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa