Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelva
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Proto-Slavic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *pelH-u-. Cognate with Lithuanian pẽlūs, Old Prussian pelwo, Sanskrit पलाव (palā́va, “chaff, husks”).
Noun[edit]
*pèlva f[1]
Inflection[edit]
Declension of *pèlva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *pèlva | *pèlvě | *pèlvy |
genitive | *pèlvy | *pèlvu | *pèlvъ |
dative | *pèlvě | *pèlvama | *pèlvamъ |
accusative | *pèlvǫ | *pèlvě | *pèlvy |
instrumental | *pèlvojǫ, *pèlvǭ** | *pèlvama | *pèlvamī |
locative | *pèlvě | *pèlvu | *pèlvasъ, *pèlvaxъ* |
vocative | *pèlvo | *pèlvě | *pèlvy |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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).
** 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).
Descendants[edit]
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading[edit]
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “полова”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References[edit]
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pèlva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 395: “f. ā (a) ‘chaff ’”