Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agodica

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 *àgoda (“berry”) +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*agodica f

(East and South Slavic, figuratively) cheek
Synonyms: *līcè, *olnita

Inflection

Declension of *agodica (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*agodica	*agodici	*agodicę̇
genitive	*agodicę̇	*agodicu	*agodicь
dative	*agodici	*agodicama	*agodicamъ
accusative	*agodicǫ	*agodici	*agodicę̇
instrumental	agodicejǫ, agodicǫ^**	*agodicama	*agodicami
locative	*agodici	*agodicu	agodicasъ, agodicaxъ^*
vocative	*agodice	*agodici	*agodicę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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

nouns

*agodina f (“berry”)
*agodišče n (“place where the berries grow”)
*agodьje n (“berries”)
*agodьnica f
*agodьnikъ m

adjectives

*agodьnъ (“pertaining to berry, of berry”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: я́гадзіца (jáhadzica)
- Russian: я́годица (jágodica)
- ⇒ Russian: я́годница (jágodnica) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Macedonian: јагодица (jagodica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: jȁgodica
  
  Cyrillic script: ја̏годица

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agodica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 59

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agodica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 59