Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/strъjь

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.

• *stryjь

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *strujas, from Proto-Indo-European *stru-yós, from *stru- (“gray-haired, old”). Cognate with Lithuanian strùjus (“uncle, old man”), Irish sruith (“wise man, sage”).

Vasmer says that it can be from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (cf. Latin patruus). Morphologically ptr->ttr->str + Proto-Balto-Slavic *-jas.

*strъjь m

1. uncle

• *strъjьkъ / *strъjьko
• *strъjьcь

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стръи (strŷi), стрꙑи (stryi)
    • Old Ruthenian: стрый (stryj)
      • Belarusian: стрый (stryj) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: стрый (strŷj)
      • Ukrainian: стрий (stryj) (dialectal)
    • Russian: строй (stroj), стрый (stryj) (dialectal, archaic)
  • Old Novgorodian: стръи / ⱄⱅⱃⱏⰻ (strŷi)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbian Church Slavonic: стръи (strŷi)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: stryj
    • Polish: stryj, stryja
  • Polabian: stråjă
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: strij, strëja

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “strujus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 432
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*strъjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “строй”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress