Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъmyzъ

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.

Likely from the same root as Proto-Slavic *gъmъza (“clump”), *gъmota (“matter”), *gomola (“clump, heap”), but unclear beyond that. Possibly akin to Proto-Slavic *žęti (“to squeeze”).

*gъmyzъ m

1. swarming insect, pest
2. pebble, shingle (in South Slavic)

• *gъmyza f

• *gъmyzati (“to swarm, to infest”)

• *gъmъžiti (“to swarm, to diffuse”)
• *gъmъzъ (“swarm, crowd, band”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: гмыз (hmyz)
  • Russian: гмы́за f (gmýza, “swarm”) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гми̑з m, гми́за f (“pearl”)

    Latin script: gmȋz m, gmíza f (“pearl”)

  • Slovene: gmíza f (“pearl”)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hmyz
    • Czech: hmyz
  • Old Slovak: hmyz
    • Slovak: hmyz

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*gъmyzъ/*gъmyza”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 195