Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/britva

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 *briti +‎ *-tva.

Noun

*brìtva f

1. razor

Inflection

Declension of *brìtva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*brìtva	*brìtvě	*brìtvy
genitive	*brìtvy	*brìtvu	*brìtvъ
dative	*brìtvě	*brìtvama	*brìtvamъ
accusative	*brìtvǫ	*brìtvě	*brìtvy
instrumental	*brìtvojǫ, *brìtvǭ**	*brìtvama	*brìtvamī
locative	*brìtvě	*brìtvu	*brìtvasъ, *brìtvaxъ*
vocative	*brìtvo	*brìtvě	*brìtvy

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Belarusian: бритва (britva)
  • Russian: бри́тва (brítva)
    • → Skolt Sami: friitv
  • Ukrainian: бри́тва (brýtva)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: бритва (britva)

    Glagolitic script: ⰱⱃⰻⱅⰲⰰ (britva)

  • Bulgarian: бри́тва (brítva)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бри̏тва

    Latin script: brȉtva

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): brȉtva
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): brȉtva
  • Slovene: britva
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: břitva
    • Czech: břitva
  • Kashubian: brzitew, brzitwia
  • Polish: brzytwa
  • Slovak: britva
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: britej

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*brìtva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 63
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бри́тва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress