Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/Slovǫta

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

Uncertain. Usually believed to be from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH- (“to clean” in the sense “to wash over, rinse”) +‎ *-ǫta, but this root is just a guess based on phonetics, and there are other possibilities. However, compare Russian Слуя (Sluja), Polish Sława, Sławica, Serbo-Croatian Slavnica and Lithuanian Šlavė̃. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Displaced by *Dъněprъ.

Proper noun

*Slovǫta f needs accents

Dnieper (a river in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine)
Synonym: *Dъněprъ

Declension

Declension of *Slovǫta (hard a-stem, uncountable)
	singular
nominative	*Slovǫta
genitive	*Slovǫty
dative	*Slovǫtě
accusative	*Slovǫtǫ
instrumental	Slovǫtojǫ, Slovǫtǫ^**
locative	*Slovǫtě
vocative	*Slovǫto

^* -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).

Derived terms

nouns

*slověninъ m

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *Словѫта (*Slovǫta)
  - Old Ruthenian: Славута (Slavuta) (1610–1635; 17–18th c.)
    - Ukrainian: Славу́та (Slavúta) (poetic)
    - → Middle Polish: Słautą (1615), Sławutą (1642) (learned)
  - ⇒ Old East Slavic: Словѫтичь m (Slovǫtičĭ) (The Tale of Igor's Campaign, late 12th c.)
    - → Middle Russian: Слаутичъ (Slautič) (learned, late 17th c.)
    - → Russian: Славу́тич (Slavútič) (learned)
    - → Ukrainian: Славу́тич (Slavútyč) (learned)

Stryzhak, O. S., editor (1985), “Дънѣпръ”, in Етимологічний словник літописних географічних назв Південної Русі [Etymological Dictionary of Chronicle Geographical Names of Southern Rus'] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 55
Luchyk, V. V. (2014), “Дніпро́”, in Етимологічний словник топонімів України [Etymological Dictionary of Toponyms of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Academy, →ISBN, page 185