Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/motyka
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Proto-Slavic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *mot-. Cognate with Latin mateola (“hoe”), Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, plowshare”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “agricultural device, harrow?”).
Noun[edit]
*motỳka f
Inflection[edit]
Declension of *motỳka (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *motỳka | *motycě | *motyky |
genitive | *motyky | *motyku | *motykъ |
dative | *motycě | *motykama | *motykamъ |
accusative | *motykǫ | *motycě | *motyky |
instrumental | *motykojǫ, *motykǫ** | *motykama | *motykami |
locative | *motycě | *motyku | *motykasъ, *motykaxъ* |
vocative | *motỳko | *motycě | *motyky |
* -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).
** 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[edit]
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References[edit]
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*motỳka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 327