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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děvica
Proto-Slavic
Inflection
Declension of *děvìca (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *děvìca | *děvìci | *děvìcę̇ |
Accusative | *děvìcǫ | *děvìci | *děvìcę̇ |
Genitive | *děvìcę̇ | *děvìcu | *děvìcь |
Locative | *děvìcī | *děvìcu | *děvìcāsъ |
Dative | *děvìcī | *děvìcama | *děvìcāmъ |
Instrumental | *děvìcējǫ, *děvìcǭ* | *děvìcama | *děvìcāmī |
Vocative | *děvìce | *děvìci | *děvìcę̇ |
* 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
- *děvičь
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1978), “*děvica”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 05, Moscow: Nauka, page 19
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*děvìca”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105: “f. ā (a) ‘maiden, girl’”
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