Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rota

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

Possibly:

• from an earlier *wrotā, from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-, cognate with Sanskrit व्रत (vratám), Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬀 (urvāta), Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós). From the same root is also Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
• from an earlier *roktā, from *reťi +‎ *-ta.

Noun

*rotà f

1. oath, vow, swear

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rotà	*rȍtě	*rȍty
genitive	*rotý	*rotù	*ròtъ
dative	*rotě̀	*rotàma	*rotàmъ
accusative	*rȍtǫ	*rȍtě	*rȍty
instrumental	*rotojǫ́	*rotàma	*rotàmi
locative	*rȍtě	*rotù	*rotàsъ, *rotàxъ*
vocative	*roto	*rȍtě	*rȍty

^* -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.

Coordinate terms

• *klętva
• *prisęga
• *obětъ

Derived terms

verbs

• *rotiti

 

nouns

• *porota
• *rotьba
• *zarota

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рота (rota)
    • Old Ruthenian: рота (rota)
    • Russian: рота (rota)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ро̀та

    Latin script: ròta

  • Slovene: rota (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: rota

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рота”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “рота”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 176