Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čęšča
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editBy surface analysis, *čęstъ (“frequent, dense”) + *-ja.
Noun
edit*čęšča f[1]
Declension
editDeclension of *čęšča (soft a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *čęšča | *čęšči | *čęščę̇ |
genitive | *čęščę̇ | *čęšču | *čęščь |
dative | *čęšči | *čęščama | *čęščamъ |
accusative | *čęščǫ | *čęšči | *čęščę̇ |
instrumental | *čęščejǫ, *čęščǫ** | *čęščama | *čęščami |
locative | *čęšči | *čęšču | *čęščasъ, *čęščaxъ* |
vocative | *čęšče | *čęšči | *čęščę̇ |
* -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).
** 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
edit- East Slavic:
References
edit- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čęšča”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 109