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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slovo
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱléwos (“fame”).
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian šlovė̃ (“fame, respect, honor”) and Latvian slava (“fame, reputation, rumor”), slave (“fame, reputation, rumor”).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek κλέος (kléos, “fame”), Sanskrit श्रवस् (śrávas, “fame, honor”) and Old Irish clú (“fame”).
Inflection
Declension of *slȍvo (s-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *slȍvo | *slȍvesi | *slovesà |
Accusative | *slȍvo | *slȍvesi | *slovesà |
Genitive | *slȍvese | *slovesù | *slovèsъ |
Locative | *slȍvese | *slovesù | *slovèsьxъ |
Dative | *slȍvesi | *slovesьmà | *slovèsьmъ |
Instrumental | *slȍvesьmь | *slovesьmà | *slovesý |
Vocative | *slȍvo | *slȍvesi | *slovesà |
Related terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “слово”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
- “word” in The Slavic Linguistic Atlas
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*slȍvo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454
- Kapović, Mate (2007), “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, University of Vienna, page 7: “*slȍvo”
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