подошва

• From Old East Slavic подъшьва (podŭšĭva, “sole (bottom); foundation”), from Proto-Slavic [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Slavic *šiti (“to sew”). The doublet по́чва (póčva) might have arisen from the Old East Slavic genitive plural подъшьвъ (podŭšĭvŭ), giving Russian genitive plural почевъ (počev), whence по́чва (póčva) by analogical levelling.

• Another possibility is that both подо́шва (podóšva) and по́чва (póčva) come from Proto-Slavic *podъšьvь (whence Czech počev), which would yield nominative *подшевь (*podševʹ) ~ genitive *подошви (*podošvi), each giving rise, after transfer into a-stem, to a complete levelled paradigm.

• IPA^(key): [pɐˈdoʂvə]

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подо́шва • (podóšva) f inan (genitive подо́швы, nominative plural подо́швы, genitive plural подо́шв)

1. sole (bottom of the foot or of the shoe)
2. foot (of the mountain)

• → Azerbaijani: padoş
• → Armenian: պադոշ (padoš)
• → Georgian: პადოში (ṗadoši)
• → Crimean Tatar: падош
• → Hunzib: пӏадош, падош

• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “подошва”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
• Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), “подошва”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 49
• Sreznevskij, I. I. (1902), “подъшьва”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 2, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 302

• Viktor Vinogradov ((Can we date this quote?))“почва”, in История слов