Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čavъka

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

Noun

*čavъka f

1. jackdaw (corvid)

   Synonym: *kavъka

Inflection

Declension of *čavъka (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čavъka	*čavъcě	*čavъky
genitive	*čavъky	*čavъku	*čavъkъ
dative	*čavъcě	*čavъkama	*čavъkamъ
accusative	*čavъkǫ	*čavъcě	*čavъky
instrumental	*čavъkojǫ, *čavъkǫ**	*čavъkama	*čavъkami
locative	*čavъcě	*čavъku	*čavъkasъ, *čavъkaxъ*
vocative	*čavъko	*čavъcě	*čavъky

^* -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

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ча́вка (čávka)
  • Macedonian: ча́вка (čávka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ча̑вка

    Latin script: čȃvka

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: ceucă

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čavъka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 31