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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žętva
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *žęti (“to reap, mow”) + *-tva. Compare Sanskrit हन्त्व (hántva, “to be killed or slain”).
Inflection
Declension of *žę̀tva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *žę̀tva | *žę̀tvě | *žę̀tvy |
Accusative | *žę̀tvǫ | *žę̀tvě | *žę̀tvy |
Genitive | *žę̀tvy | *žę̀tvu | *žę̀tvъ |
Locative | *žę̀tvě | *žę̀tvu | *žę̀tvasъ, *žę̀tvaxъ* |
Dative | *žę̀tvě | *žę̀tvama | *žę̀tvamъ |
Instrumental | *žę̀tvojǫ, *žę̀tvǭ** | *žę̀tvama | *žę̀tvamī |
Vocative | *žę̀tvo | *žę̀tvě | *žę̀tvy |
* -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
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “žętva”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
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