Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/melzivo

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

Substantivized adjective *melzivo or from *melzti (“to milk”) +‎ *-ivo

Noun

*melzivo n

1. colostrum

Declension

Declension of *melzivo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*melzivo	*melzivě	*melziva
genitive	*melziva	*melzivu	*melzivъ
dative	*melzivu	*melzivoma	*melzivomъ
accusative	*melzivo	*melzivě	*melziva
instrumental	*melzivъmь, *melzivomь*	*melzivoma	*melzivy
locative	*melzivě	*melzivu	*melzivěxъ
vocative	*melzivo	*melzivě	*melziva

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

Declension of *melziva (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*melziva	*melzivě	*melzivy
genitive	*melzivy	*melzivu	*melzivъ
dative	*melzivě	*melzivama	*melzivamъ
accusative	*melzivǫ	*melzivě	*melzivy
instrumental	*melzivojǫ, *melzivǫ**	*melzivama	*melzivami
locative	*melzivě	*melzivu	*melzivasъ, *melzivaxъ*
vocative	*melzivo	*melzivě	*melzivy

^* -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).

Alternative forms

• *melziva

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: молозиво (molozivo)
    • Belarusian: мало́дзіва (malódziva), маладзі́ва (maladzíva)
    • Russian: моло́зиво (molózivo)
    • Ukrainian: моло́зиво (molózyvo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: млѣзиво (mlězivo)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мле̏зӣво, мље̏зӣво

    Latin script: mlȅzīvo, mljȅzīvo

  • Slovene: mlezivo n, mleziva f
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mlezivo
    • Czech: mlezivo
      • Moravian (Mistřice): mlezivo
  • Old Polish: mleziwo
    • Polish: młodziwo n, mleziwa f
  • Slovak: mledzivo

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “молозиво”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “молозиво”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 539
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*melzivo/*melziva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 94