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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/životъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gʔiwot-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wotós. Morphologically as if *živъ (“alive”) + *-otъ.
Baltic cognates are Lithuanian gyvatà (“life”) and Old Prussian giwato (“life”).
Indo-European cognates are Latin vīta (from *gʷih₃woteh₂), Sanskrit जीवित (jīvitá, “life”) and Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos).
Inflection
Declension of *živòtъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *živòtъ | *životà | *životì |
Accusative | *živòtъ | *životà | *životỳ |
Genitive | *životà | *životù | *živòtъ |
Locative | *životě̀ | *životù | *živòtěxъ |
Dative | *životù | *životòma | *životòmъ |
Instrumental | *životъ̀mь, *životòmь* | *životòma | *živòty |
Vocative | *živote | *životà | *životì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- → Karelian: šiivatta
Further reading
- Gluhak, Alemko (1993) Hrvatski etimološki rječnik (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, page 710f
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “живот”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*živòtъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 563
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