Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lata

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

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Noun

*lata f

1. rag?, cloth shred?, patch?

Inflection

Declension of *lata (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lata	*latě	*laty
genitive	*laty	*latu	*latъ
dative	*latě	*latama	*latamъ
accusative	*latǫ	*latě	*laty
instrumental	*latojǫ, *latǫ**	*latama	*latami
locative	*latě	*latu	*latasъ, *lataxъ*
vocative	*lato	*latě	*laty

^* -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:
  • Belarusian: ла́та (láta)
  • Russian: ла́та (láta)
  • Ukrainian: ла́та (láta)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: ла́тица (lática), а́лтица (áltica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ла̏тица

    Latin script: lȁtica

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: lata
  • Polish: łata
  • Slovak: lаtа, lаttа᾽

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lata”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 47
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ла́та”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress