Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golota

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *golъ +‎ *-ota.

Noun

*golota f

nakedness

Declension

Declension of *golota (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*golota	*golotě	*goloty
Accusative	*golotǫ	*golotě	*goloty
Genitive	*goloty	*golotu	*golotъ
Locative	*golotě	*golotu	golotasъ, golotaxъ^*
Dative	*golotě	*golotama	*golotamъ
Instrumental	golotojǫ, golotǫ^**	*golotama	*golotami
Vocative	*goloto	*golotě	*goloty

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: голота́ (golotá) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: голо́та (holóta)
  - Polish: hołota
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: голота́ (golotá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: голо̀та
  
  Latin: golòta
- Slovene: golota
West Slavic:
- Czech: holota
- Polish: gołota (obsolete)
- Slovak: holota

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*golota”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 174
Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “голо́та”, 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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