Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mytva

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 forms

• *mytvo
• *mytьba

Etymology

From *myti +‎ *-tva.

Noun

*mytva f

1. washing

Synonyms

• *mytьje, *myjenьje, *myvь

Inflection

Declension of *mytva (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mytva	*mytvě	*mytvy
genitive	*mytvy	*mytvu	*mytvъ
dative	*mytvě	*mytvama	*mytvamъ
accusative	*mytvǫ	*mytvě	*mytvy
instrumental	*mytvojǫ, *mytvǫ**	*mytvama	*mytvami
locative	*mytvě	*mytvu	*mytvasъ, *mytvaxъ*
vocative	*mytvo	*mytvě	*mytvy

^* -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: мытва (mytva)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мꙑтва (mytva)
    • Russian: мытво́ (mytvó), (possibly) мытьба́ (mytʹbá)
    • Belarusian: мыцьво́ (mycʹvó)
• West Slavic:
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: mytwo

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mytva/*mytvo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 21 (*mъrskovatъjь – *nadějьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 83
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mytьba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 21 (*mъrskovatъjь – *nadějьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 85
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “мытва”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 219