Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/květъ

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 edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kwaitas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwoyt-o-s, with irregular centumization, from *ḱweyt- (“to shine”). By surface analysis, *kvisti (“to bloom”) +‎ *-ъ. Doublet of *světъ.

Noun edit

*kvě̑tъ m^[1]^[2]

flower (a plant that bears flowers)
(botany) flower (the part of the flowering plant containing the reproductive organs)

Declension edit

Declension of *kvě̑tъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kvě̑tъ	*kvě̑ta	*kvě̑ti
genitive	*kvě̑ta	*květù	*kvě̃tъ
dative	*kvě̑tu	*květomà	*květòmъ
accusative	*kvě̑tъ	*kvě̑ta	*kvě̑ty
instrumental	kvě̑tъmь, kvě̑tomь^*	*květomà	*květý
locative	*kvě̑tě	*květù	*květě̃xъ
vocative	*květe	*kvě̑ta	*kvě̑ti

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

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: цвѣтъ (cvětŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: цвѣтъ (cvět)
    - Belarusian: цвет (cvjet) (obsolete)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: цвіт (cvit)
    - Ukrainian: цвіт (cvit)
  - Russian: цвет (cvet) (obsolete)
- Old Novgorodian: квѣте (květe)
  - → Russian: квет (kvet) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: цвѣтъ (cvětŭ)
- Bulgarian: цвят (cvjat), цве́те (cvéte), цвѣтъ (cvět) (obsolete)
- Macedonian: цвет (cvet)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: цве̑т, цвије̑т, цви̑т, цвѣтъ (obsolete)
  
  Latin: cvȇt, cvijȇt, cvȋt, cviet (obsolete), cvět (obsolete)
- Slovene: cvẹ̑t (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: kwiat, kwiôt
- Old Czech: květ
  - Czech: květ
- Polabian: kjot
- Polish: kwiat
  - → Old Ruthenian: квѣтъ (květ), квꙗтъ (kvjat)
    - Belarusian: квет (kvjet)
    - Ukrainian: квіт (kvit)
- Silesian: kwiat
- Slovak: kvet
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: kwět
  - Upper Sorbian: kwět
- → Yiddish: קווייט (kveyt)

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kvě̑tъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 258: “m. o (c) ‘flower’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “květъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 156; PR 137); d (OSA 142; RPT 98, 101f.)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kvě̑tъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 258: “m. o (c) ‘flower’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “květъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 156; PR 137); d (OSA 142; RPT 98, 101f.)”

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