Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lastovica
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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
By surface analysis, *lastъka + *-ica
Noun
Inflection
Declension of *lastovica (soft a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *lastovica | *lastovici | *lastovicę̇ |
| genitive | *lastovicę̇ | *lastovicu | *lastovicь |
| dative | *lastovici | *lastovicama | *lastovicamъ |
| accusative | *lastovicǫ | *lastovici | *lastovicę̇ |
| instrumental | *lastovicejǫ, *lastovicǫ** | *lastovicama | *lastovicami |
| locative | *lastovici | *lastovicu | *lastovicasъ, *lastovicaxъ* |
| vocative | *lastovice | *lastovici | *lastovicę̇ |
* -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).
Related terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ластовица (lastovica)
- Old Ruthenian: ластовица (lastovica)
- Ukrainian: ластови́ця (lastovýcja)
- Russian: ла́стовица (lástovica) (dialectal)
- Old Ruthenian: ластовица (lastovica)
- Old East Slavic: ластовица (lastovica)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Bulgarian: ла́стовица (lástovica); ле́стовица (léstovica) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: ластовица (lastovica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ла̏стовица
- Latin script: lȁstovica
- Old Slovene: lastovica
- Slovene: lástovica (tonal orthography); lȃstḁi̭cḁ (dialectal)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: vlastovice, vlaštovice; laštovice (dialectal)
- Old Slovak: lastovica, vlastovica
- Slovak: lastovica (poetic)
- Polabian: lostĕvaićă, lostovaićă
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: łastojca
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lastovica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 44
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “lastovica”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (MP 21)”