Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelva
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *pelH-u-. Cognate with Lithuanian pẽlūs, Old Prussian pelwo, Sanskrit पलाव (palā́va, “chaff, husks”).
Noun
[edit]*pèlva f[1]
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *pèlva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *pèlva | *pèlvě | *pèlvy |
genitive | *pèlvy | *pèlvu | *pèlvъ |
dative | *pèlvě | *pèlvama | *pèlvamъ |
accusative | *pèlvǫ | *pèlvě | *pèlvy |
instrumental | *pèlvojǫ, *pèlvǭ** | *pèlvama | *pèlvamī |
locative | *pèlvě | *pèlvu | *pèlvasъ, *pèlvaxъ* |
vocative | *pèlvo | *pèlvě | *pèlvy |
* -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).
** 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
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: pelyva
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pèlva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 395: “f. ā (a) ‘chaff ’”
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “полова”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2021), “*pelva/*pelvy/*pela/*pely?/*peleva (?)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 42 (*peča – *perzъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 83