Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glota

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *gъlota (Melnyčuk)

Etymology

Per Melnyčuk (EDUM), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to amass, to clot”), akin to Proto-West Germanic *klott (“clod, lump”), Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“fetus”). Trubačev (ESSJa) presumes heterogenous origin, with possibly influence from *golota (“nakedness”).

Noun

*glota f

1. amalgamation, admixture
2. (in some dialects) contamination

Inflection

Declension of *glota (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glota	*glotě	*gloty
genitive	*gloty	*glotu	*glotъ
dative	*glotě	*glotama	*glotamъ
accusative	*glotǫ	*glotě	*gloty
instrumental	*glotojǫ, *glotǫ**	*glotama	*glotami
locative	*glotě	*glotu	*glotasъ, *glotaxъ*
vocative	*gloto	*glotě	*gloty

^* -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

• *glotiti
• *glotьnъ
  • *glotьnica (“pack, crowd”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: глота (glota, “crowd”)
  • Ukrainian: гло́та (hlóta), глота́ (hlotá, “narrowing”); гліт m (hlit)
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: глоти́ти (hlotýty, “to squeeze”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: гло́та (glóta) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: глотка (glotka) (diminutive)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гло́та, гло̏та; гло̏т m

    Latin script: glóta, glȍta; glȍt m

  • Slovene: glȏta, glóta (tonal orthography) (dialectal)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: gloată (“band, mob”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glota/*glotъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 138
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “глота”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 528
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глота”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 251