Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žezlъ

Etymology
. Potential etymologies include:
 * Pedersen, Mladenov (tentatively considered by Derksen, Vasmer): Cognate with 🇨🇬, perhaps from reduplication of hypothetical . See also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, possibly of substrate origin.
 * Trubačev, Machek, Snoj: From, cognate with 🇨🇬, possibly 🇨🇬 (which however exhibits long -ī-) and akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Within this hypothesis, -z- in Slavic is problematic.
 * Georgiev: Possibly from an earlier 🇨🇬, from, with progressive assimilation of *-g- > *-z- or -ž- (in Serbo-Croatian) after *ž-. Such a lemma is attested in dialectal 🇨🇬,.

See references for further discussion.

Noun

 * 1) stick, staff, rod

Descendants

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