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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *koza (“goat”) + *-ja.
Noun
*kòža f[1][2]
- skin
- leather
Declension
Declension of
*kòža (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)
* -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).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: кожа (koža)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Non-Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кожа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*koža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 35
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kòža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 242: “f. jā (b) ‘skin, leather’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “kozja kozjě”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b* (SA 138; PR 135; MP 19)”