Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ěďa

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 *ěda/*ědъ/*ědь (“food”) +‎ *-ja or *ě̀sti (“to eat”) +‎ *-ja. According to Trubachyov: inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ḗˀdjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édyeh₂ (“food related, edible”), from *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Compare Lithuanian ė́džia (“horse food”) and Sanskrit अद्य (ādyá, “edible”), Latin inedia (“fasting”).

Noun

*ě̀ďa f

1. eating, eating activity
2. what is eaten, food, nourishment

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ě̀ďa	*ě̀ďi	*ě̀ďę̇
genitive	*ě̀ďę̇	*ě̀ďu	*ě̀ďь
dative	*ě̀ďī	*ě̀ďama	*ě̀ďāmъ
accusative	*ě̀ďǫ	*ě̀ďi	*ě̀ďę̇
instrumental	*ě̀ďējǫ, *ě̀ďǭ*	*ě̀ďama	*ě̀ďāmī
locative	*ě̀ďī	*ě̀ďu	*ě̀ďāsъ
vocative	*ě̀ďe	*ě̀ďi	*ě̀ďę̇

^* 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).

Related terms

Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ed-‎ (0 c, 3 e)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *ѣжа (*ěža)
    • Old Ruthenian: *ѣжа (*jěža)
    • Belarusian: е́жа (jéža)
    • Ukrainian: ї́жа (jíža); є́жа (jéža) (dialectal)
  • Russian: е́жа (jéža) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: ꙗжда (jažda)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: је̏ђа, језа (dialectal)

    Latin script: jȅđa, jeza (dialectal)

  • Slovene: jéja (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Czech: objeza, objedza (dialectal)
  • Old Polish: jedza
    • Polish: jedza (dialectal)
  • Slovak: jedza (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Slovak: objedza
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jěza

Further reading

• Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1985), “е́жа”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 3 (га! – інчэ́), Minsk: Navuka i technika