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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bī́ˀtwāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰih₂-tweh₂, from *bʰeyh₂- (“to strike, hew”) + *-tweh₂. Equivalent to *biti + *-tva.
Noun
*bìtva f[1][2]
- battle, fight
- Synonyms: *bõjь, *bitъka, *bitьje
Inflection
Declension of
*bìtva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
* -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:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “би́тва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bìtva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 42: “f. ā (a) ‘battle, fight’”
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 64