Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mazь

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

Alternative forms

*mazъ m

Etymology

From *mazati (“to smear, to anoint, to oil”) +‎ *-ь.

Noun

*mȃzь f

grease

Inflection

Declension of *mȃzь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mȃzь	*mȃzi	*mȃzi
genitive	*mazí	mazьjù, mažu^*	*mazь̀jь
dative	*mȃzi	*mazьmà	*mȃzьmъ
accusative	*mȃzь	*mȃzi	*mȃzi
instrumental	*mazьjǫ́	*mazьmà	*mazьmì
locative	*mazí	mazьjù, mažu^*	*mȃzьxъ
vocative	*mazi	*mȃzi	*mȃzi

^* 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

*maslo (“oil, butter”)
*mastь (“ointment”)
*mazati (“to oil, annoint, smear”)
*mazъ (“grease, ointment”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мазь (mazĭ)
  - Belarusian: мазь f (mazʹ)
  - Russian: маз m (maz), мазь f (mazʹ)
    - → Bezhta: мази (mazi)
    - → Yakut: маас (maas)
  - Ukrainian: мазь f (mazʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Old Cyrillic script: мазь f (mazĭ)
- Bulgarian: мазь (mazʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)
  Cyrillic script: маз
  
  Latin script: mȃz
- Slovene: maz
West Slavic:
- Czech: maz m
- Polish: maź f
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: maz f
  - Upper Sorbian: maz m (dialectal)

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mȃzь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 304
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мазь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress