Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slota

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

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Cognates include Lithuanian šlapias and Persian سرد (sard).

Noun

*slota f

1. bad weather

Inflection

Declension of *slota (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*slota	*slotě	*sloty
genitive	*sloty	*slotu	*slotъ
dative	*slotě	*slotama	*slotamъ
accusative	*slotǫ	*slotě	*sloty
instrumental	*slotojǫ, *slotǫ**	*slotama	*slotami
locative	*slotě	*slotu	*slotasъ, *slotaxъ*
vocative	*sloto	*slotě	*sloty

^* -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: слота (slota)
    • Belarusian: сло́та (slóta)
    • Russian: сло́та (slóta)
    • Ukrainian: сло́та́ (slótá), сльота́ (slʹotá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Serbian Church Slavonic слота (slota)

  • Bulgarian: сло́та (slóta)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сло̏та

  • Slovene: slóta (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: slota
    • Czech: slota
  • Polish: słota
  • Slovak: slota

• Non-Slavic
  • → Albanian: sqotë
  • → Romanian: zloată

Further reading

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