Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelva

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 Proto-Indo-European *pelH-u-. Cognate with Lithuanian pẽlūs, Old Prussian pelwo, Sanskrit पलाव (palā́va, “chaff, husks”).

Noun

*pèlva f

1. chaff

Inflection

Declension of *pèlva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pèlva	*pèlvě	*pèlvy
genitive	*pèlvy	*pèlvu	*pèlvъ
dative	*pèlvě	*pèlvama	*pèlvamъ
accusative	*pèlvǫ	*pèlvě	*pèlvy
instrumental	*pèlvojǫ, *pèlvǭ**	*pèlvama	*pèlvamī
locative	*pèlvě	*pèlvu	*pèlvasъ, *pèlvaxъ*
vocative	*pèlvo	*pèlvě	*pèlvy

^* -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: пало́ва (palóva)
  • Russian: поло́ва (polóva)
  • Ukrainian: поло́ва (polóva)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: плѣва (plěva)
  • Bulgarian: пля́ва (pljáva)
  • Macedonian: плева (pleva)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пле̏ва, пље̏ва

    Latin: plȅva, pljȅva

  • Slovene: plẹ́va (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pleva
    • Czech: pleva
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): plíva
  • Polish: plewa
  • Old Slovak: pleva
    • Slovak: pleva
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pluwa
    • Lower Sorbian: plowa

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: pelyva

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “полова”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2021), “*pelva/*pelvy/*pela/*pely?/*peleva (?)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 42 (*peča – *perzъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 83