Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kolivo

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 *koliti +‎ *-ivo.

Noun

*kolivo n

1. slaughter, butchery

   Synonyms: *kolnь, *koltьje, *kolь

Inflection

Declension of *kolivo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kolivo	*kolivě	*koliva
genitive	*koliva	*kolivu	*kolivъ
dative	*kolivu	*kolivoma	*kolivomъ
accusative	*kolivo	*kolivě	*koliva
instrumental	*kolivъmь, *kolivomь*	*kolivoma	*kolivy
locative	*kolivě	*kolivu	*kolivěxъ
vocative	*kolivo	*kolivě	*koliva

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ко́ліва (kóliva)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ко́ливо (kólivo) (obsolete)
  • Macedonian: коливо (kolivo)
  • Serbo-Croatian: ко̏љӣво
• West Slavic: —

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kolivo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 137