Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/modlitva

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

*modliti (“to pray”) + *-tva.

Noun

*modlitva f

prayer

Inflection

Declension of *modlitva (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*modlitva	*modlitvě	*modlitvy
genitive	*modlitvy	*modlitvu	*modlitvъ
dative	*modlitvě	*modlitvama	*modlitvamъ
accusative	*modlitvǫ	*modlitvě	*modlitvy
instrumental	modlitvojǫ, modlitvǫ^**	*modlitvama	*modlitvami
locative	*modlitvě	*modlitvu	modlitvasъ, modlitvaxъ^*
vocative	*modlitvo	*modlitvě	*modlitvy

^* -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: молитва (molitva)
  - Old Ruthenian: моли́тва (molítva)
    - Belarusian: малі́тва (malítva)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: моли́тва (molýtva)
    - Ukrainian: моли́тва (molýtva)
  - Russian: моли́тва (molítva)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: молитва (molitva)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰿⱁⰾⰻⱅⰲⰰ (molitva)
- Bulgarian: моли́тва (molítva)
- Macedonian: молитва (molitva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: мо̀литва
  
  Latin script: mòlitva
- Slovene: molȋtəv (tonal orthography) (reanalyzed)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: modlitva
  - Czech: modlitba
- Kashubian: mòdlëtwa
- Old Polish: modlitwa, moglitwa
  - Polish: modlitwa
- Slovak: modlitba
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: modlitwa
  - Lower Sorbian: módlitwa

Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: molitfă, molitvă
- → Yakut: мэлииппэ (meliippe), малыыппа (malııppa)