Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slava

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ślṓˀwāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-. Synchronically, perhaps a deverbal from *slyti (similar to *bava, *trava, possibly *-tava from *byti, *tryti, *tyti respectively).

Noun

*slàva f

1. glory, fame

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*slàva	*slàvě	*slàvy
genitive	*slàvy	*slàvu	*slàvъ
dative	*slàvě	*slàvama	*slàvamъ
accusative	*slàvǫ	*slàvě	*slàvy
instrumental	*slàvojǫ, *slàvǭ**	*slàvama	*slàvamī
locative	*slàvě	*slàvu	*slàvasъ, *slàvaxъ*
vocative	*slàvo	*slàvě	*slàvy

^* -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

• *slaviti (causative-iterative)
• *slavьnъ

Related terms

• *slȍvo (“word”)
• *slyti (“to have a reputation”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: слава (slava)
    • Old Ruthenian: сла́ва (sláva)
      • Belarusian: сла́ва (sláva)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: сла́ва (sláva)
      • Ukrainian: сла́ва (sláva)
    • Russian: сла́ва (sláva)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: слава (slava)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰾⰰⰲⰰ (slava)

  • Bulgarian: сла́ва (sláva)
  • Macedonian: слава (slava)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сла̏ва

    Latin script: slȁva

  • Slovene: sláva (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sláva
    • Czech: sláva
      • Moravian (Mistřice): su̯áva
  • Polish: sława
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: sława, słôwa
    • Slovincian: slawa
  • Silesian: sława
  • Old Slovak:
    • Pannonian Rusyn: слава (slava)
    • Slovak: sláva
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: sława
    • Upper Sorbian: sława

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: slavă

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “слава”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “слава”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka