Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slava

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

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European root noun *ḱlēw-, from the root *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Lithuanian šlovė̃ (“fame, honor”), Samogitian šlovė and Latvian slava, slave (“fame, reputation, rumor”).

Noun

*slàva f

1. glory, fame

Declension

Declension of *slàva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*slàva	*slàvě	*slàvy
genitive	*slàvy	*slàvu	*slàvъ
dative	*slàvě	*slàvama	*slàvamъ
accusative	*slàvǫ	*slàvě	*slàvy
instrumental	*slàvojǫ, *slàvǭ**	*slàvama	*slàvamī
locative	*slàvě	*slàvu	*slàvasъ, *slàvaxъ*
vocative	*slàvo	*slàvě	*slàvy

^* -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).

Related terms

• *sluti (“be called”)
• *slyšati (“to hear”)
• *slyti (“have a reputation”)
• *slušati (“to listen”)

• *sluxъ (“hearing; rumor”)
• *slovo (“word”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: слава (slava)
    • Belarusian: сла́ва (sláva)
    • Russian: сла́ва (sláva)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: слава (slava)
    • Ukrainian: сла́ва (sláva)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: слава (slava)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⰾⰰⰲⰰ (slava)

  • Bulgarian: слава (slava)
  • Macedonian: слава (slava)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сла̏ва

    Latin script: slȁva

  • Slovene: sláva (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: sláva
  • Kashubian: słôwa
  • Polish: sława
  • Slovak: sláva
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: sława
    • Upper Sorbian: sława

• Non-Slavic languages:
  • Romanian: slavă

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “слава”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 453