Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nuta

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

Considered a borrowing from Proto-West Germanic *naut (“cattle”), likely fossilized as a collective of an earlier *nuto n + *-a. Probably cognate with Latvian nauda (“money”), Lithuanian naudà (“use, benefit”), whence dialectal Belarusian но́ўда (nóŭda), навда́ (navdá, “use, benefit”), Polish nawda (“advantage”).

Noun

*nùta f

1. cattle

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nùta	*nùtě	*nùty
genitive	*nùty	*nùtu	*nùtъ
dative	*nùtě	*nùtama	*nùtamъ
accusative	*nùtǫ	*nùtě	*nùty
instrumental	*nùtojǫ, *nùtǭ**	*nùtama	*nùtamī
locative	*nùtě	*nùtu	*nùtasъ, *nùtaxъ*
vocative	*nùto	*nùtě	*nùty

^* -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

• *nutьnъ (relative adjective)
  • *nutьnikъ (“owner, seller of cattle”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: нꙋта (nuta, “cattle”)
    • Russian: ну́та (núta, “livestock”) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ноута (nuta, “cow, ox”)
  • Slovene: núta (“herd”)
• West Slavic:
  • Polabian: nǫtǫ (sg. acc.)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: nuta (“herd of cattle”) (archaic)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nuta”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 48
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “нута”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• “nauda”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012