Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/meltva
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *melti (“to grind, mill”) + *-tva.
Noun
[edit]*meltva f
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *meltva (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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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).
** 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
[edit]References
[edit]- 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