Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tata
Proto-SlavicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tatas, from Proto-Indo-European *tatás.
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian tė̃tis, tėtýtis, tė̃tė, Latvian tētis, Old Prussian thetis.
Indo-European cognates include Vedic Sanskrit तत (tatá), Sanskrit तात (tā́ta), Ancient Greek τατᾶ (tatâ), τέττα (tétta), Latin tata, Cornish tat, Albanian tatë.
NounEdit
*tata m
Related termsEdit
Category Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tata- not found
Derived termsEdit
(diminutives)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of *tata (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *tata | *tatě | *taty |
Accusative | *tatǫ | *tatě | *taty |
Genitive | *taty | *tatu | *tatъ |
Locative | *tatě | *tatu | *tatasъ, *tataxъ* |
Dative | *tatě | *tatama | *tatamъ |
Instrumental | *tatojǫ, *tatǫ** | *tatama | *tatami |
Vocative | *tato | *tatě | *taty |
* -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).
See alsoEdit
- Nursery words: *tata, *mama, *dada, *teta, *nana, *nena, *dědъ, *baba, *lola, *lelja
- Unsorted: *ova (“grandmother”), *sěmьja
DescendantsEdit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
ReferencesEdit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “тата”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “тятя”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, Pavel (1999), “тятя”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russian Language, page 278