Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/melzivo
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Substantivized adjective *melzivo or from *melzti (“to milk”) + *-ivo
Noun
*melzivo n
Declension
Declension of *melzivo (hard o-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *melzivo | *melzivě | *melziva |
| genitive | *melziva | *melzivu | *melzivъ |
| dative | *melzivu | *melzivoma | *melzivomъ |
| accusative | *melzivo | *melzivě | *melziva |
| instrumental | *melzivъmь, *melzivomь* | *melzivoma | *melzivy |
| locative | *melzivě | *melzivu | *melzivěxъ |
| vocative | *melzivo | *melzivě | *melziva |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Declension of *melziva (hard a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *melziva | *melzivě | *melzivy |
| genitive | *melzivy | *melzivu | *melzivъ |
| dative | *melzivě | *melzivama | *melzivamъ |
| accusative | *melzivǫ | *melzivě | *melzivy |
| instrumental | *melzivojǫ, *melzivǫ** | *melzivama | *melzivami |
| locative | *melzivě | *melzivu | *melzivasъ, *melzivaxъ* |
| vocative | *melzivo | *melzivě | *melzivy |
* -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).
Alternative forms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: молозиво (molozivo)
- Belarusian: мало́дзіва (malódziva), маладзі́ва (maladzíva)
- Russian: моло́зиво (molózivo)
- Ukrainian: моло́зиво (molózyvo)
- Old East Slavic: молозиво (molozivo)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “молозиво”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “молозиво”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 539
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*melzivo/*melziva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 94