Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nъťьvy

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

*nъťьky f pl (+*-ъkъ)
*nьťьvy f pl, *nьťьky f pl

Etymology

Perchance from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”).

Noun

*nъťьvy f pl

tray, trough, wooden tub wherein one performs household jobs
1. kneading trough
Synonym: *korỳto

Inflection

Declension of *nъťьvy (hard a-stem, plural only)

	plural
nominative	*nъťьvy
genitive	*nъťьvъ
dative	*nъťьvamъ
accusative	*nъťьvy
instrumental	*nъťьvami
locative	nъťьvasъ, nъťьvaxъ^*
vocative	*nъťьvy

^* -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: нъчьвꙑ (nŭčĭvy), ночьвꙑ (nočĭvy)
  - Old Ruthenian: но́чвы f pl (nóčvy), ночо́вки (nočóvki)
    - Belarusian: но́чвы f pl (nóčvy), начо́ўкі (načóŭki)
    - Ukrainian: но́чви f pl (nóčvy), ночо́вки (nočóvky)
  - Russian: но́чвы́ f pl (nóčvý), ночо́вки (nočóvki), ночёвки (nočóvki)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: нъштвꙑ f pl (nŭštvy), нъштви f pl (nŭštvi)
- Bulgarian: но̀щвѝ f pl (nòštvì); dialectally нъ́щви f pl (nǎ́štvi), нъшки́ f pl (nǎškí), нъ́чви f pl (nǎ́čvi), но́кви f pl (nókvi), ношкови́ f pl (noškoví), нъщови́ f pl (nǎštoví), но̀щовѝ f pl (nòštovì), не́шкеви f pl (néškevi) and others
- Macedonian: ноќви f pl (noḱvi), ношви f pl (nošvi) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: на̏ћве f pl, навће, млаћве (dialectal)
  
  Latin script: nȁćve f pl, navće, mlaćve (dialectal)
- Slovene: nəčkẹ̑, nəškẹ̑, nəčvẹ̑ f pl (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: necky f pl
  - Czech: necky f pl
- Lechitic:
  - Old Polish: niecki f pl
    - Polish: niecki f pl; also niecka f sg
      - → Ukrainian: не́цьки f pl (nécʹky)
  - Polabian: nacṭai f pl
  - Slovincian: njêchy f pl
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: ńacki, ńecki f pl
  - Upper Sorbian: mjecki f pl

Ночвы, начоўкі on the Belarusian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^be
Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/nъťьvy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 359
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nъktjьky/*nьktjьky; *nъktjьvy/*nьktjьvy”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 51–54
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ночва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress