Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oratva

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

Etymology

From *orati +‎ *-tva

Noun

*oratva f

1. plowing

Synonyms

1. *oranьje, *oranъka, *oratьje

Inflection

Declension of *oratva (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*oratva	*oratvě	*oratvy
genitive	*oratvy	*oratvu	*oratvъ
dative	*oratvě	*oratvama	*oratvamъ
accusative	*oratvǫ	*oratvě	*oratvy
instrumental	*oratvojǫ, *oratvǫ**	*oratvama	*oratvami
locative	*oratvě	*oratvu	*oratvasъ, *oratvaxъ*
vocative	*oratvo	*oratvě	*oratvy

^* -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).

Descendants

• Church Slavonic: оратва (oratva), оратьба (oratĭba)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: оратва (oratva)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Slovene: oratva
    • Slovene: orȃtva, Slovene: orȃtev f

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: oratba

References

• Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*oratva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 110