Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glazъ

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.

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleǵ- (“round, spherical, stone”).

Possible cognate Russian Church Slavonic глезнъ (gleznŭ, “ankle, heel”) (from Proto-Slavic *gleznъ (“ankle”), from pre-Slavic *gleǵn-) and Old Norse klakkr (“bump, hillock”), Norwegian klakk, dial. Swedish klakk (“heel (shoe); knoll in the field”), Middle High German klac (“a bang, crack, split”) (from pre-Germanic *gloǵno-). Also compare Sanskrit ग्लह m (glaha, “gaming, dice”).

*glȃzъ m^[1][2]

1. ball, stone
2. eyeball

   Synonym: *ȍko

• *glazikъ
• *glazъkъ
• *glazьcь
• *glazьnъ

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: глазъ (glazŭ, “ball; eye”)
    • Middle Russian: глазъ (glaz, “eye”)
      • Russian: глаз (glaz, “eye”)
        • → Ukrainian: глаз (hlaz, “eye”) (slang​)
    • Old Ruthenian: глазъ (hlaz, “eye”)
      • Russian: глаз (glaz, “eye”)
      • Belarusian: глаз (hlaz, “eye”) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Old Ruthenian: Глаз (Hlaz) (proper name)
    • ⇒ Middle Russian: Глаз (Glaz), Глазъ (Glaz), Глазко (Glazko) (proper name)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: *глаз (*glaz, “big stone”) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: Гла́зо (Glázo) (given name​); Гла́зов (Glázov) (surname​)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: Глас (Glas, “Rock”) (toponym)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hlaz (“eye”)
  • Old Polish: głaz (“river boulder; pebbles, coarse sand”)
    • Polish: głaz (“boulder; large rock”)
    • ⇒ Polish: Głaz (surname​)

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glazъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 117
• Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1995), “glȃzъ”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 7 (ga – gobьdzь), Wrocław: Ossolineum, →ISBN, page 90
• Anikin, A. E. (2016) “глаз”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 10 (галочка – глыча), Moscow: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 270
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глаз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “глазки́”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka