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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *groź-. Compare English grue (“to shudder”).
Noun
*grozà f[1][2]
- horror
Inflection
Declension of
*grozà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
* -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.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: гроза (groza)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*groza”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 141
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*grozà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 191: “f. ā (c) ‘horror’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “groza grozy”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c frygt, uvejr, trussel (PR 138)”