Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xyba
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]*xyba f
Declension
[edit]Declension of *xyba (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *xyba | *xybě | *xyby |
genitive | *xyby | *xybu | *xybъ |
dative | *xybě | *xybama | *xybamъ |
accusative | *xybǫ | *xybě | *xyby |
instrumental | *xybojǫ, *xybǫ** | *xybama | *xybami |
locative | *xybě | *xybu | *xybasъ, *xybaxъ* |
vocative | *xybo | *xybě | *xyby |
* -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:
- Slovene: híba (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: hiba
Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xyba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 153