Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/meltva

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

Alternative forms

• *meltьba

Etymology

From *melti (“to grind, mill”) +‎ *-tva.

Noun

*meltva f

1. grinding, milling

   Synonyms: *meltьje, *melnьje, *melivo, *melvo, *mlivo

Inflection

Declension of *meltva (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*meltva	*meltvě	*meltvy
genitive	*meltvy	*meltvu	*meltvъ
dative	*meltvě	*meltvama	*meltvamъ
accusative	*meltvǫ	*meltvě	*meltvy
instrumental	*meltvojǫ, *meltvǫ**	*meltvama	*meltvami
locative	*meltvě	*meltvu	*meltvasъ, *meltvaxъ*
vocative	*meltvo	*meltvě	*meltvy

^* -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: молотьба (molotĭba)
    • Russian: молотьба́ (molotʹbá)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мле̏̏тва

    Latin script: mletva?, mljetvina

  • Slovene: mlêtva, mlêtev f
• West Slavic:
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: mlětwa
  • Polish: młóćba

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*meltva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 91