Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/četa

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 *kʷeteh₂ "pair", from Proto-Indo-European *kʷet- "to fit together".

Noun

*četa f

1. company

Declension

Declension of *četa (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*četa	*četě	*čety
genitive	*čety	*četu	*četъ
dative	*četě	*četama	*četamъ
accusative	*četǫ	*četě	*čety
instrumental	*četojǫ, *četǫ**	*četama	*četami
locative	*četě	*četu	*četasъ, *četaxъ*
vocative	*četo	*četě	*čety

^* -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: чета (četa)
    • Russian: чета́ (četá)
  • Ukrainian: чота́ (čotá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: чета (četa)

    Glagolitic: ⱍⰵⱅⰰ (četa)

  • Bulgarian: че́та (čéta)
  • Macedonian: чета (četa)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: че̏та

    Latin script: čȅta

  • Slovene:
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: četa
  • Slovak: čata
• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: csata
    • Polish: czata
  • → Romanian: ceată

Further reading

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