Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/navada

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

From *navaditi, derived from *vada (“conduct”).

Noun

*navada f

1. habit, conduct

Inflection

Declension of *navada (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*navada	*navadě	*navady
genitive	*navady	*navadu	*navadъ
dative	*navadě	*navadama	*navadamъ
accusative	*navadǫ	*navadě	*navady
instrumental	*navadojǫ, *navadǫ**	*navadama	*navadami
locative	*navadě	*navadu	*navadasъ, *navadaxъ*
vocative	*navado	*navadě	*navady

^* -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: навада (navada)
    • Russian: нава́да (naváda) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⱀⰰⰲⰰⰴⰰ (navada)

    Old Cyrillic script: навада (navada)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: на̑вада

    Latin script: nȃvada

  • Slovene: navȃda (tonal orthography)