Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žegъzuľa

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

From *žegъza (“cuckoo”) +‎ *-uľa.

Noun

*žegъzuľa f[1][2][3]

(North Slavic) cuckoo

Declension

Declension of *žegъzuľa (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*žegъzuľa	*žegъzuľi	*žegъzuľę̇
genitive	*žegъzuľę̇	*žegъzuľu	*žegъzuľь
dative	*žegъzuľi	*žegъzuľama	*žegъzuľamъ
accusative	*žegъzuľǫ	*žegъzuľi	*žegъzuľę̇
instrumental	žegъzuľejǫ, žegъzuľǫ^**	*žegъzuľama	*žegъzuľami
locative	*žegъzuľi	*žegъzuľu	žegъzuľasъ, žegъzuľaxъ^*
vocative	*žegъzuľe	*žegъzuľi	*žegъzuľę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

nouns

*žegъzica f (“cuckoo”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: жегъзулꙗ (žegŭzulja), жегозулꙗ (žegozulja), зегзулꙗ (zegzulja), зогзулꙗ (zogzulja), зегула (zegula)
  - Old Ruthenian: зозу́лꙗ (zozúlja), зазу́лꙗ (zazúlja), зезу́лꙗ (zezúlja), зезю́лꙗ (zezjúlja)
    - Belarusian: зязю́ля (zjazjúlja); зогзу́ля (zohzúlja), зовзу́ля (zovzúlja), зяўзу́ля (zjaŭzúlja), зозу́ля (zozúlja) (dialectal)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: зазу́ля (zazúlja), зозу́ля (zozúlja)
      - ⇒ Carpathian Rusyn: зазули́ця (zazulýcja)
    - Ukrainian: зозу́ля (zozúlja), зо́зуль m (zózulʹ); зазу́ля (zazúlja), завзу́ля (zavzúlja), зизу́ля (zyzúlja), зовзи́ля (zovzýlja), зовзу́ля (zovzúlja), зузу́ля (zuzúlja), зезу́ля (zezúlja) (dialectal)
    - → Polish: zozula, zazula; zieziula (dialectal)
    - ⇒ Old Ruthenian: зозу́лъка (zozúlka)
      - Belarusian: зязю́лька (zjazjúlʹka), зеўзю́лка (zjeŭzjúlka) (dialectal)
      - Ukrainian: зозу́лька (zozúlʹka); зазу́лька (zazúlʹka) (dialectal)
  - Russian: жегозу́ля (žegozúlja), зазу́ля (zazúlja), зозу́ля (zozúlja), зязю́ля (zjazjúlja) (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Czech: žežule, žežhule
  - ⇒ Czech: žežulka, žežhulka, zezulka
- ⇒ Polabian: züzaicka (< *zozučьka)
- ⇒ Old Polish: gżegżółka, gżeżółka
  - Polish: gżegżółka
- ⇒ Slovak: žežhulica (dialectal)

References

Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “зозу́ля”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 274
Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1972–1982) “зозу́ля”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volumes 2 (Д – Ь), Ottawa: Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Language Association, →LCCN, page 451
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