Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dobyťa
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editNoun
edit*dobyťa f
Declension
editDeclension of *dobyťa (soft a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *dobyťa | *dobyťi | *dobyťę̇ |
genitive | *dobyťę̇ | *dobyťu | *dobyťь |
dative | *dobyťi | *dobyťama | *dobyťamъ |
accusative | *dobyťǫ | *dobyťi | *dobyťę̇ |
instrumental | *dobyťejǫ, *dobyťǫ** | *dobyťama | *dobyťami |
locative | *dobyťi | *dobyťu | *dobyťasъ, *dobyťaxъ* |
vocative | *dobyťe | *dobyťi | *dobyťę̇ |
* -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).
Related terms
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editReferences
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dobytja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 48