Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/znojь

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

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Noun

*znojь m

1. heat
2. swelter

Declension

Declension of *znojь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*znojь	*znoja	*znoji
genitive	*znoja	*znoju	*znojь
dative	*znoju	*znojema	*znojemъ
accusative	*znojь	*znoja	*znoję̇
instrumental	*znojьmь, *znojemь*	*znojema	*znoji
locative	*znoji	*znoju	*znojixъ
vocative	*znoju	*znoja	*znoji

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: знои (znoi)
    • Russian: зной (znoj)
    • Ukrainian: знiй (znij)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: знои (znoi)
  • Bulgarian: зной (znoj)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зној

    Latin script: znoj

  • Slovene: znȏj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: znoj
  • Polish: znój
  • Slovak: znoj

Further reading

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