Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/životъ
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gīˀwatás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wotós. Morphologically as if *živъ (“alive”) + *-otъ.
Baltic cognates are Lithuanian gyvatà (“life”) and Old Prussian giwato (“life”).
Indo-European cognates are Latin vīta (from *gʷih₃woteh₂), Sanskrit जीवित (jīvitá, “life”) and Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos).
Noun
[edit]*živòtъ m[1]
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *živòtъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *živòtъ | *životà | *životì |
genitive | *životà | *životù | *živòtъ |
dative | *životù | *životòma | *životòmъ |
accusative | *živòtъ | *životà | *životỳ |
instrumental | *životъ̀mь, *životòmь* | *životòma | *živòty |
locative | *životě̀ | *životù | *živòtěxъ |
vocative | *živote | *životà | *životì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Karelian: šiivatta
Further reading
[edit]- Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Proto-Slavic/životъ”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 710
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “живот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*živòtъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 563
Categories:
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-otъ
- Proto-Slavic lemmas
- Proto-Slavic nouns
- Proto-Slavic masculine nouns
- Proto-Slavic hard o-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic hard masculine o-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm b