Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pěxota

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 *pěxъ +‎ *-ota, the first element being derived from Proto-Indo-European *pēd-, a variant of *ped-.

Noun

*pěxota f

1. infantry

Declension

Declension of *pěxota (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pěxota	*pěxotě	*pěxoty
genitive	*pěxoty	*pěxotu	*pěxotъ
dative	*pěxotě	*pěxotama	*pěxotamъ
accusative	*pěxotǫ	*pěxotě	*pěxoty
instrumental	*pěxotojǫ, *pěxotǫ**	*pěxotama	*pěxotami
locative	*pěxotě	*pěxotu	*pěxotasъ, *pěxotaxъ*
vocative	*pěxoto	*pěxotě	*pěxoty

^* -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:
  • Belarusian: пяхо́та (pjaxóta)
  • Russian: пехо́та (pexóta)
  • Ukrainian: піхо́та (pixóta)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пехо́та (pehóta)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pěchota
  • Polish: piechota
  • Slovak: pechota

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пехота”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress