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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread, to extend”).
Compare Lithuanian stríegti (“to roof”)
Noun
*strěxa f
- roof, thatched roof
- eaves
- awning, canopy
Inflection
* -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: стрѣха (strěxa)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стреха”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “стреха”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “стрѣха”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 571