Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/trěva

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

See *trāvà.

Noun

*trě̄và f

1. grass

Inflection

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*trě̄và	*trě̃vě	*trě̄vỳ
genitive	*trě̄vỳ	*trě̄vù	*trě̃vъ
dative	*trě̄vě̀	*trě̄vàma	*trě̄vàmъ
accusative	*trě̄vǫ̀	*trě̃vě	*trě̄vỳ
instrumental	*trě̄vòjǫ, *trě̃vǫ**	*trě̄vàma	*trě̄vàmī
locative	*trě̄vě̀	*trě̄vù	*trě̄vàsъ, *trě̄vàxъ*
vocative	*trěvo	*trě̃vě	*trě̄vỳ

^* -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

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: трѣва (trěva)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: трева́ (trevá)
  • Macedonian: трева (treva)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 497