Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbotęga
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editNoun
edit*orbotęga f
Declension
editDeclension of *orbotęga (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *orbotęga | *orbotędzě | *orbotęgy |
genitive | *orbotęgy | *orbotęgu | *orbotęgъ |
dative | *orbotędzě | *orbotęgama | *orbotęgamъ |
accusative | *orbotęgǫ | *orbotędzě | *orbotęgy |
instrumental | *orbotęgojǫ, *orbotęgǫ** | *orbotęgama | *orbotęgami |
locative | *orbotędzě | *orbotęgu | *orbotęgasъ, *orbotęgaxъ* |
vocative | *orbotęgo | *orbotędzě | *orbotęgy |
* -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).
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- East Slavic:
References
edit- Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbotędzь/*orbotęgъ/*orbotęga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 123