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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gǫzъ

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-Indo-European *gonǵ-, *gouǵ- (“lump”). Cognate with Ancient Greek γογγῠ́λος (gongúlos, “round”), Old Prussian gunsix (“bump”) (? < Polish *gązik), Lithuanian gū́žis (“cabbage head”), Albanian gungë (“hump, lump”), Old Norse kǫngull (“cluster, bunch”).[1]

Noun

*gǫzъ m

  1. ass, buttock, bump

Alternative forms
  • *gǫza f, *guzъ m

Derived terms
  • *gǫzati
  • *gǫzyrь
  • *gǫzьnъ, *gǫzьno
  •  ? *gǫžь
    • *gǫžьvь, *gǫžьva

Declension
Declension of *gǫzъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *gǫzъ *gǫza *gǫzi
genitive *gǫza *gǫzu *gǫzъ
dative *gǫzu *gǫzoma *gǫzomъ
accusative *gǫzъ *gǫza *gǫzy
instrumental *gǫzъmь, *gǫzomь* *gǫzoma *gǫzy
locative *gǫzě *gǫzu *gǫzěxъ
vocative *gǫze *gǫza *gǫzi
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic:
      • Belarusian: гуз (huz, “bump”); гузэ́ pl (huzé, “glands”) (dialectal)
      • Russian: гуз (guz, “ass, buttock; bottom of the sheaf; thick bottom of the tree; tumour; narrow long strip”), гу́за f (gúza, “wrinkle, crease, pleat”), гуза́ f (guzá), гузо́ n (guzó, “bottom of the sheaf, thick bottom of the tree”); гу́зка f (gúzka, “rump (of a bird); ass”) (dialectal); гузно n (guzno)
      • Old Ukrainian: гузна f (huzna), гузица f (huzica, “ass”)[2]
        • Ukrainian: гуза́ f (huzá, “stern, rear of the boat; ass”); гу́зка f (húzka, “egg blunt end; rump (of a bird); callus; wart; lipoma; bottom of the ochipok”), гу́зно n (húzno, “butt, rump, ass”), гузи́р m (huzýr, “lower part of a sheaf; place where a sack is tied”)
    • Old Novgorodian: гꙋска f (guska)[3][4]
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      • Bulgarian: гъз (gǎz, “ass, buttocks, anus”); гъс (gǎs) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: газ (gaz, “ass, butt, buttocks”)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: гу̑з (“ass; egg blunt end”), гу́за f (“butt; crease”); гу̀зица f (“butt”)
      Latin script: gȗz (“ass; egg blunt end”), gúza f (“butt; crease”); gùzica f (“butt”)
    • Slovene: góza f (“butt”), gúza f (“butt; crease; wrinkle”)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: huza f (“tailbone”), huzo n (“rump (of a bird)”)
    • Polish: gąz (obsolete); guz (“bump, tumour; clothing button”)
    • Slovincian: gúz (“bump”)

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

References
  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gǫzъ / *gǫza / *guzъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 91
  2. Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2000), “гузица; гузна”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 7 (головнѣйший – десѧтина), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 115
  3. “гꙋска (letter no. 330)”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024
  4. Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “гузка”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎ (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 729
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