Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/strьžь

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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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Related to Proto-Slavic *strьžę̃ ~ *strь̏žьnь (core, nucleus). Possibly cognate with Swedish streke (cental flux), from Proto-Germanic *strikiz (streak, line).

Compare also Slovene stȍrž, stȑž (cone, pillar), seeminly from an yo-stem *strъžь.

Noun

*strьžь m[1]

  1. median, kernel
    central flux of a river, stream (East, West Slavic)
    marrow (of bones), heartwood (of tree stem) (South Slavic)

Alternative forms

  • *strьžь f (i-stem), *strьža f (jā-stem)

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: стреж (strež); (dialectal) стрежь f (strežʹ), стрежа́ f (strežá)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стреж”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*strьžь; *strьža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470:m. jo; f. jā ‘core, deepest spot of a river’