Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/saďa

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 *sṓdjāˀ. Cognate with Lithuanian súodžiai, Old Norse sót, English soot.

Noun

*sàďa f

1. soot

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sàďa	*sàďi	*sàďę̇
genitive	*sàďę̇	*sàďu	*sàďь
dative	*sàďī	*sàďama	*sàďāmъ
accusative	*sàďǫ	*sàďi	*sàďę̇
instrumental	*sàďējǫ, *sàďǭ*	*sàďama	*sàďāmī
locative	*sàďī	*sàďu	*sàďāsъ
vocative	*sàďe	*sàďi	*sàďę̇

^* 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: са́жа (sáža)
  • Russian: са́жа (sáža)
  • Ukrainian: са́жа (sáža)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: сажда (sažda)
  • Bulgarian: са́жда (sážda), са́жди (sáždi) (plural)
  • Macedonian: саѓа (saǵa)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сађа, саже

    Latin script: sađa, saže

  • Slovene: sája, saje
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sazě
    • Czech: saze (plural)
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): sáze
  • Polabian: soʒe
  • Polish: sadza
  • Old Slovak: sadza
    • Pannonian Rusyn: садза (sadza)
    • Slovak: sadza
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: sazy (plural)
    • Lower Sorbian: saze (plural, dialectal)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “са́жа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress