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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gǫšča

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

Deadjectival form of *gǫstъ (“dense”) +‎ *-ja or a nomen acti of *gǫstiti (“to condense”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*gǫ̃šča f[1]

  1. sediment, compression

Inflection

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Alternative forms
  • *gǫščь
  • *gǫstota (“density”)
  • *gǫstyni (“dense forrest”)
  • *gostostь (“denseness”)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: гу́ща (gúšča)
    • Ukrainian: гу́ща (húšča)
    • Belarusian: гушча (hušča)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: гу̏шта
      Latin script: gȕšta
    • Slovene: gọ́šča (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: houšť
    • Slovak: húšť

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gǫšča/*gǫščь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 89

References
  1. Olander, Thomas (2001), “gǫšča”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a:b (PR 132)”
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