Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ňiva
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editCognate with Ancient Greek νειός (neiós, “field”).
Noun
edit*ňìva f[1]
Inflection
editDeclension of *ňìva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *ňìva | *ňìvě | *ňìvy |
genitive | *ňìvy | *ňìvu | *ňìvъ |
dative | *ňìvě | *ňìvama | *ňìvamъ |
accusative | *ňìvǫ | *ňìvě | *ňìvy |
instrumental | *ňìvojǫ, *ňìvǭ** | *ňìvama | *ňìvamī |
locative | *ňìvě | *ňìvu | *ňìvasъ, *ňìvaxъ* |
vocative | *ňìvo | *ňìvě | *ňìvy |
* -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:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ни́ва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
edit- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ņìva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 354