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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *ne- + *voľa.
Noun
*nevoľa f[1]
- need, necessity
- misfortune, trouble
- captivity, slavery
Declension
* -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).
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: неволꙗ (nevolja)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nevoľa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 85