Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/trěva
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
See *trāvà.
Noun edit
*trě̄và f
Inflection edit
Declension of *trě̄và (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *trě̄và | *trě̃vě | *trě̄vỳ |
genitive | *trě̄vỳ | *trě̄vù | *trě̃vъ |
dative | *trě̄vě̀ | *trě̄vàma | *trě̄vàmъ |
accusative | *trě̄vǫ̀ | *trě̃vě | *trě̄vỳ |
instrumental | *trě̄vòjǫ, *trě̃vǫ** | *trě̄vàma | *trě̄vàmī |
locative | *trě̄vě̀ | *trě̄vù | *trě̄vàsъ, *trě̄vàxъ* |
vocative | *trěvo | *trě̃vě | *trě̄vỳ |
* -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).
Descendants edit
- South Slavic:
References edit
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 497