Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bělica
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
*bělica f
Declension edit
Declension of *bělica (soft a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *bělica | *bělici | *bělicę̇ |
genitive | *bělicę̇ | *bělicu | *bělicь |
dative | *bělici | *bělicama | *bělicamъ |
accusative | *bělicǫ | *bělici | *bělicę̇ |
instrumental | *bělicejǫ, *bělicǫ** | *bělicama | *bělicami |
locative | *bělici | *bělicu | *bělicasъ, *bělicaxъ* |
vocative | *bělice | *bělici | *bělicę̇ |
* -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
- Non-Slavic:
- → Albanian: belcë
References edit
- ^ Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1996), “бѣлица”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 3 (богъ – весъной), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 147
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bělica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 64