Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lovitva

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 *loviti +‎ *-tva.

Noun

*lovitva f

1. catching, hunting
2. catch
3. trap (East Slavic only)

Synonyms

1. *lovjenьje, *lovьstvo, *lovlja
2. *lovina

Inflection

Declension of *lovitva (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lovitva	*lovitvě	*lovitvy
genitive	*lovitvy	*lovitvu	*lovitvъ
dative	*lovitvě	*lovitvama	*lovitvamъ
accusative	*lovitvǫ	*lovitvě	*lovitvy
instrumental	*lovitvojǫ, *lovitvǫ**	*lovitvama	*lovitvami
locative	*lovitvě	*lovitvu	*lovitvasъ, *lovitvaxъ*
vocative	*lovitvo	*lovitvě	*lovitvy

^* -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 East Slavic: ловитва (lovitva)
    • Old Belarusian: ловитва (lovitva)
    • Russian: лови́тва (lovítva)
    • Old Ukrainian: ловитва (lovitva)
      • Ukrainian: лови́тва (lovýtva)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ловитва (lovitva)
  • Bulgarian: ловитба (lovitba), ловитва (lovitva), ловидба (lovidba)
  • Macedonian: ловидба (lovidba)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ло̀витва, ло̀видба

    Latin script: lòvitva

  • Slovene: lovȋtev f, lovȋtva
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: łowitwa

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lovitva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 108