Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/Živa

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.

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Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Nominalization of *živa f (“alive, live, living”).

Proper Noun

*Živa f

1. (West and South Slavic) a female given name, Zhiva

Inflection

Declension of *Živa (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*Živa	*Živě	*Živy
genitive	*Živy	*Živu	*Živъ
dative	*Živě	*Živama	*Živamъ
accusative	*Živǫ	*Živě	*Živy
instrumental	*Živojǫ, *Živǫ**	*Živama	*Živami
locative	*Živě	*Živu	*Živasъ, *Živaxъ*
vocative	*Živo	*Živě	*Živy

^* -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: Жѝва (Žìva), ⇒ Жѝвка (Žìvka)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: Живка (Živka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: Жива, ⇒ Живка

    Latin script: Živa, ⇒ Živka

  • Slovene: Žíva
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: Živa, ⇒ Živka, Živana
  • >? Old Polish: Żywa
    • Polish: Żywa, ⇒ Żywka
  • Slovak: Živa
  • Old Polabian: *Žyva (theonym, given name)

Further reading

• Илчев, Стефан (1969) “Жива”, in Речник на личните и фамилни имена у българите [Dictionary of Bulgarian Personal and Family Names] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 17
• Kovachev, Nikolay (1987) “”, in Честотно-тълковен речник на личните имена у българите [Frequency-interpretive dictionary of personal names among Bulgarians] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Петър Берон, page 95
• Schlimpert, Gerhard (1978) “Živ-”, in Slawische Personennamen in mittelalterlichen Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte [Slavic personal names in medieval sources of German history] (in German), Berlin: Akademie Verlag, page 163