drozdъ

drozdъ Grammatical information: m. o Accent paradigm: c (/b?) Proto-Slavic meaning: `thrush'

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Russian:

drozd `thrush, (čërnyj d.) blackbird' [m o], drozdá [Gens] \{1\}

Ukrainian:

drizd `thrush' [m o], drozdá [Gens]

Czech:

drozd `thrush' [m o]

Slovak:

drozd `thrush' [m o]

Polish:

drozd `thrush' [m o]

Slovincian:

drȯ́u̯zd `thrush' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

drȏzd `thrush' [m o];

drȏzak `thrush' [m o], drȏzga [Gens];

drȏzak `thrush' [m o], drȍzga [Gens];

Čak. drȍzak `thrush' [m o], drȍzga [Accs]

Slovene:

drǫ̑zd `thrush' [m o];

drǫ̑zg `thrush, (črni d.) blackbird' [m o]

Bulgarian:

drozd `thrush, (coll.) blackbird' [m o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: trozdós

Lithuanian:

strãzdas `thrush, (juodasis s.) blackbird, (dial.) starling' [m o] 4

Latvian:

strazds `thrush, (melnais s.) blackbird, (mājas s.) starling' [m o]

Old Prussian:

tresde `thrush'

Indo-European reconstruction: trozd-o-

Comments: In order to explain why *drozdъ was not, or rather only partly affected by the generalization of accentual mobilty in masculine o-stems, Illič-Svityč (1963: 45) reconstructs an u -stem, referring to OIc. ʮrǫstr < *-uz. I am inclined to consider the possibility that owing to the cluster -zd-, which prevented the Balto-Slavic retraction called Ebeling's law, *drozdъ belonged to a marginal oxytone type that in principle merged with AP (b). In that case it is no longer necessary to posit a u-stem. It must be said, by the way, that the evidence for AP (c) seems to outweigh the evidence for (c).

Other cognates:

Lat. turdus `thrush'

;

OIr. truit `thrush' [f] \{2\};

OIc. ʮrǫstr `thrush'

Notes:

\{1\} AP (c) in Old Russian (Zaliznjak 1985: 137). \{2\} OIr. also truid, druid.