Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čaja
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic *kḗˀjāˀ (“gull, lapwing”), from onomatopoeia of cry *kḗˀ-kḗˀ.
Noun
edit*čàja f
Declension
editDeclension of *čaja (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *čaja | *čàji | *čàję̇ |
genitive | *čàję̇ | *čàju | *čàjь |
dative | *čàjī | *čàjama | *čàjāmъ |
accusative | *čàjǫ | *čàji | *čàję̇ |
instrumental | *čàjējǫ, *čàjǭ* | *čàjama | *čàjāmī |
locative | *čàjī | *čàju | *čàjāsъ |
vocative | *čàje | *čàji | *čàję̇ |
* 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
editDescendants
edit- West Slavic:
- Czech: čaja (dialectal)
Further reading
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čaja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 10