borzdà

borzdà Grammatical information: f. ā Accent paradigm: b Proto-Slavic meaning: `furrow'

Page in Trubačev: II 220

Old Church Slavic:

brazda `furrow' [f ā]

Russian:

borozdá `furrow, (dial.) harrow, canal' [f ā]

Czech:

brázda `furrow' [f ā]

Slovak:

brázda `furrow' [f ā]

Polish:

bruzda `furrow' [f ā]

Slovincian:

bḁ́řḍă `furrow' [f ā]

Upper Sorbian:

brózda `furrow' [f ā]

Lower Sorbian:

brozda `furrow' [f ā];

brůzda (dial.) `furrow' [f ā];

brou̯zda (dial.) `furrow' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

brázda `furrow, (dial.) canal' [f ā];

Čak. bråzdȁ (Vrgada) `furrow' [f ā];

Čak. brāzdȁ (Orbanići) `furrow, row (of potatoes etc., planted in one furrow)' [f ā] \{1\}

Slovene:

brázda `furrow, wrinkle' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

brazdá `furrow' [f ā];

brezdá `furrow' [f ā]

Macedonian:

brazdá `furrow, irrigation canal, wrinkle' [f ā]

Lithuanian:

bir̃žė `sign (out of straws or twigs) that marks the boundary of the sowed land, furrow' [f ē] 2 \{2\}

Latvian:

bìrze `furrow' [f ē]

Comments: The reconstruction *bʰrs-d(ʰ)-, which would enable a connection with Skt. bhr̥ṣṭí- f. (RV) `point, top, spike, tooth', cannot account for the Baltic forms.

Other cognates:

Skt. bhr̥ṣṭí-

Notes:

\{1\} More common is the i-stem brȃs, Gsg. brāzdȉ. \{2\} The original accentuation of this word cannot be established. In Lithuanian, we find biržė 1/2/4 and biržis 1/2/3/4. In Latvian, bìrze, bir̃ze and biȓze are attested.