Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pliska

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

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Noun

*pliska f

1. wagtail (any bird of the genus Motacilla)

Inflection

Declension of *pliska (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pliska	*pliscě	*plisky
genitive	*plisky	*plisku	*pliskъ
dative	*pliscě	*pliskama	*pliskamъ
accusative	*pliskǫ	*pliscě	*plisky
instrumental	*pliskojǫ, *pliskǫ**	*pliskama	*pliskami
locative	*pliscě	*plisku	*pliskasъ, *pliskaxъ*
vocative	*plisko	*pliscě	*plisky

^* -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: пліска (pliska)
  • Russian: пли́ска (plíska), пли́стовка (plístovka), пли́стовица (plístovica), пли́сица (plísica), пли́шка (plíška), плизга́вица (plizgávica) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: пли́ска (plýska), пли́стка (plýstka), бли́ска (blýska)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пли̏ска

    Latin script: plȉska

  • Slovene: plíska (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: plíska (obsolete)
  • Old Polish: pliska
    • Polish: pliszka
  • Slovak: pliska
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pliška

Further reading

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