Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dobrota
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]*dobrota f
Declension
[edit]Declension of *dobrota (hard a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *dobrota | *dobrotě | *dobroty |
| genitive | *dobroty | *dobrotu | *dobrotъ |
| dative | *dobrotě | *dobrotama | *dobrotamъ |
| accusative | *dobrotǫ | *dobrotě | *dobroty |
| instrumental | *dobrotojǫ, *dobrotǫ** | *dobrotama | *dobrotami |
| locative | *dobrotě | *dobrotu | *dobrotasъ, *dobrotaxъ* |
| vocative | *dobroto | *dobrotě | *dobroty |
* -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:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Bulgarian: доброта́ (dobrotá)
- Macedonian: доброта (dobrota)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: dobrọ̑ta (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dobrota”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 43
- ^ The template Template:R:zle-obe:HSBM does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1987), “доброта”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 8 (девичий – дорогость), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 143 - ^ Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “доброта”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 306