Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dobyťa

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 *dobyti +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*dobyťa f

1. supply, loot
2. stock

   Synonym: *dobytъkъ

Declension

Declension of *dobyťa (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dobyťa	*dobyťi	*dobyťę̇
genitive	*dobyťę̇	*dobyťu	*dobyťь
dative	*dobyťi	*dobyťama	*dobyťamъ
accusative	*dobyťǫ	*dobyťi	*dobyťę̇
instrumental	*dobyťejǫ, *dobyťǫ**	*dobyťama	*dobyťami
locative	*dobyťi	*dobyťu	*dobyťasъ, *dobyťaxъ*
vocative	*dobyťe	*dobyťi	*dobyťę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

• *dobytъkъ
  • *dobytъčę

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: добыча (dobyča)
  • Ukrainian: добич (dobyč), dial. добича (dobyča)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian::

    Cyrillic script: доби́ћа

    Latin script: dobíća

  • Slovene: dobíča
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: zdobycz

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dobytja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 48