Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cěvь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *koi-u-i-, *ḱoi-u-i-, from Proto-Indo-European *koy-w-.

Noun

*cě̑vь f

1. tube, spool

Inflection

Declension of *cě̑vь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*cě̑vь	*cě̑vi	*cě̑vi
genitive	*cěví	*cěvьjù, *cěvľu*	*cěvь̀jь
dative	*cě̑vi	*cěvьmà	*cě̑vьmъ
accusative	*cě̑vь	*cě̑vi	*cě̑vi
instrumental	*cěvьjǫ́	*cěvьmà	*cěvьmì
locative	*cěví	*cěvьjù, *cěvľu*	*cě̑vьxъ
vocative	*cěvi	*cě̑vi	*cě̑vi

^* 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

• *cěvьca
• *cěvьje

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: цѣвь (cěvĭ)
    • Russian: кевь (kevʹ)
  • Old Novgorodian: кѣвь (kěvĭ), *кäвь (*kävĭ) (Old Pskovian)
    • → Finnish: käävi, käämi
    • → Estonian: kääv
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: цѣвь (cěvĭ)
    • → Romanian: țeavă
  • Bulgarian: цев (cev), dial. цяф (cjaf), dial. цаф (caf)
  • Macedonian: цевка (cevka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: це̑в, ције̑в, dial. ци̑в

    Latin script: cȇv, cijȇv, dial. cȋv

  • Slovene: cẹ̑v (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ciev
    • Czech: cev
  • Polabian: cev
  • Old Polish: cew, cyw
  • Slovak: ciev

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “цевка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*cěvь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 192
• (2005) Вопросы языкознания, Прибалтийско-финская лексика и восточнославянское языкознание, page 16