Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/granica
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Proto-Slavic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
*grana, *granь (“branch; border”) + *-ica.
Noun[edit]
*granìca f
- border, boundary, limit, a line that separates things or areas
- pedunculate oak (Quercus robur)
- Hypernym: *dǫ̑bъ
- sharp branch, sharp tip or twig of a plant, apex
Inflection[edit]
Declension of *granìca (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *granìca | *granìci | *granìcę̇ |
genitive | *granìcę̇ | *granìcu | *granìcь |
dative | *granìcī | *granìcama | *granìcāmъ |
accusative | *granìcǫ | *granìci | *granìcę̇ |
instrumental | *granìcējǫ, *granìcǭ* | *granìcama | *granìcāmī |
locative | *granìcī | *granìcu | *granìcāsъ |
vocative | *granìce | *granìci | *granìcę̇ |
* 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[edit]
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading[edit]
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “граница”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Proto-Slavic/granica”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 244
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “grens”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*granica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 106
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 440, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 440