Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/melstva
Proto-Slavic
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom *melsti + *-tva. Cognate with Lithuanian milžtuvė̃ (“milk pail”).
Noun
edit*melstva f
Synonyms
editInflection
editDeclension of *melstva (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *melstva | *melstvě | *melstvy |
genitive | *melstvy | *melstvu | *melstvъ |
dative | *melstvě | *melstvama | *melstvamъ |
accusative | *melstvǫ | *melstvě | *melstvy |
instrumental | *melstvojǫ, *melstvǫ** | *melstvama | *melstvami |
locative | *melstvě | *melstvu | *melstvasъ, *melstvaxъ* |
vocative | *melstvo | *melstvě | *melstvy |
* -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).
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
References
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*melztva/*melztvъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 96