Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/niščeta

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 *niščь +‎ *-ota

Noun

*niščeta f

1. poverty

Inflection

Declension of *niščeta (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*niščeta	*niščetě	*niščety
genitive	*niščety	*niščetu	*niščetъ
dative	*niščetě	*niščetama	*niščetamъ
accusative	*niščetǫ	*niščetě	*niščety
instrumental	*niščetojǫ, *niščetǫ**	*niščetama	*niščetami
locative	*niščetě	*niščetu	*niščetasъ, *niščetaxъ*
vocative	*niščeto	*niščetě	*niščety

^* -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: нищета (niščeta)
    • Old Ruthenian: нищета́ (niščetá)
      • Belarusian: нішчэ́та (niščéta) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: нищота́ (nyščotá), нищета́ (nyščetá)
    • Russian: нищета́ (niščetá); нищата́ (niščatá) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: нищета (ništeta), ништета (ništeta)

    Glagolitic script: ⱀⰺⱋⰵⱅⰰ (ništeta), ⱀⰺⱎⱅⰵⱅⰰ (ništeta)

  • Bulgarian: нищета̀ (ništetà)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ништета, ништет (obsolete)

    Latin script: ništeta, ništet (obsolete)

  • Slovene: niščeta (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: niszczota
    • Polish: niszczota (dialectal)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: ńišćota (obsolete)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*niščeta”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 122