Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cęta

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

Probably from Vulgar Latin *centus.

Noun

*cęta f

1. small coin

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*cęta	*cę̀tě	*cę̀ty
genitive	*cę̀ty	*cę̀tu	*cę̀tъ
dative	*cę̀tě	*cę̀tama	*cę̀tamъ
accusative	*cę̀tǫ	*cę̀tě	*cę̀ty
instrumental	*cę̀tojǫ, *cę̀tǭ**	*cę̀tama	*cę̀tamī
locative	*cę̀tě	*cę̀tu	*cę̀tasъ, *cę̀taxъ*
vocative	*cę̀to	*cę̀tě	*cę̀ty

^* -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

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: цята (cjata)
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: цѧта (cęta)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: цета

    Latin script: ceta

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: cetka
  • Polish: cętka

• Non-Slavic:
  • Romanian: țintă

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*cęta”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 194