Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lastovica

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

By surface analysis, *lastъka +‎ *-ica

Noun

*lastovica f

1. swallow

Inflection

Declension of *lastovica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lastovica	*lastovici	*lastovicę̇
genitive	*lastovicę̇	*lastovicu	*lastovicь
dative	*lastovici	*lastovicama	*lastovicamъ
accusative	*lastovicǫ	*lastovici	*lastovicę̇
instrumental	*lastovicejǫ, *lastovicǫ**	*lastovicama	*lastovicami
locative	*lastovici	*lastovicu	*lastovicasъ, *lastovicaxъ*
vocative	*lastovice	*lastovici	*lastovicę̇

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic: ластовица (lastovica)
    • Old Ruthenian: ластовица (lastovica)
      • Ukrainian: ластови́ця (lastovýcja)
    • Russian: ла́стовица (lástovica) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰾⰰⱄⱅⱁⰲⰻⱌⰰ (lastovica)

    Old Cyrillic script: ластовица (lastovica)

    • Bulgarian: ла́стовица (lástovica); ле́стовица (léstovica) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: ластовица (lastovica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ла̏стовица

    Latin script: lȁstovica

  • Old Slovene: lastovica
    • Slovene: lástovica (tonal orthography); lȃstḁi̭cḁ (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: vlastovice, vlaštovice; laštovice (dialectal)
  • Old Slovak: lastovica, vlastovica
    • Slovak: lastovica (poetic)
  • Polabian: lostĕvaićă, lostovaićă
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: łastojca