Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plaxъta

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 Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold, plait, weave”).

Noun

*plaxъta f

1. canopy, cloth, sheet

Inflection

Declension of *plaxъta (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*plaxъta	*plaxъtě	*plaxъty
genitive	*plaxъty	*plaxъtu	*plaxъtъ
dative	*plaxъtě	*plaxъtama	*plaxъtamъ
accusative	*plaxъtǫ	*plaxъtě	*plaxъty
instrumental	*plaxъtojǫ, *plaxъtǫ**	*plaxъtama	*plaxъtami
locative	*plaxъtě	*plaxъtu	*plaxъtasъ, *plaxъtaxъ*
vocative	*plaxъto	*plaxъtě	*plaxъty

^* -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:
  • Russian: пла́хта (pláxta)
  • Ukrainian: пла́хта (pláxta)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пла̏хта

    Latin script: plȁhta

  • Slovene: plȃhta (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: plachta
    • Czech: plachta
  • Kashubian: płôchta
  • Old Polish: płachta
    • Polish: płachta
  • Polabian: ploxtă
  • Slovak: plachta
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: płachta

    Upper Sorbian: płachta

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пла́хта”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress