Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golota

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 *golъ +‎ *-ota.

Noun

*golota f

1. nakedness

Declension

Declension of *golota (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*golota	*golotě	*goloty
genitive	*goloty	*golotu	*golotъ
dative	*golotě	*golotama	*golotamъ
accusative	*golotǫ	*golotě	*goloty
instrumental	*golotojǫ, *golotǫ**	*golotama	*golotami
locative	*golotě	*golotu	*golotasъ, *golotaxъ*
vocative	*goloto	*golotě	*goloty

^* -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

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: голота́ (golotá) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: голо́та (holóta)
    • → Polish: hołota
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: голота́ (golotá)
  • Macedonian: го́лота (gólota)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: голо̀та

    Latin script: golòta

  • Slovene: golota
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: holota
  • Polish: gołota (obsolete)
  • Slovak: holota

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*golota”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 174
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “голо́та”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress