Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bělověža
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]*bělověža f
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Inflection
[edit]Declension of *bělověža (soft a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *bělověža | *bělověži | *bělověžę̇ |
genitive | *bělověžę̇ | *bělověžu | *bělověžь |
dative | *bělověži | *bělověžama | *bělověžamъ |
accusative | *bělověžǫ | *bělověži | *bělověžę̇ |
instrumental | *bělověžejǫ, *bělověžǫ** | *bělověžama | *bělověžami |
locative | *bělověži | *bělověžu | *bělověžasъ, *bělověžaxъ* |
vocative | *bělověže | *bělověži | *bělověžę̇ |
* -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]- East Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: Bělověž
- Polish: Białowieża (“National Park in Poland”)
Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bělověža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 75