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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nuta
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Considered a borrowing[1] from Proto-West Germanic *naut (“cattle”), likely fossilized as a collective of an earlier *nuto n + *-a. Probably cognate with Latvian nauda (“money”), Lithuanian naudà (“use, benefit”), whence dialectal Belarusian но́ўда (nóŭda), навда́ (navdá, “use, benefit”), Polish nawda (“advantage”).
Declension
Declension of *nùta (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *nùta | *nùtě | *nùty |
genitive | *nùty | *nùtu | *nùtъ |
dative | *nùtě | *nùtama | *nùtamъ |
accusative | *nùtǫ | *nùtě | *nùty |
instrumental | *nùtojǫ, *nùtǭ** | *nùtama | *nùtamī |
locative | *nùtě | *nùtu | *nùtasъ, *nùtaxъ* |
vocative | *nùto | *nùtě | *nùty |
* -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).
Derived terms
- *nutьnъ (relative adjective)
- *nutьnikъ (“owner, seller of cattle”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nuta”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 48
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “нута”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- “nauda”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic, Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 81: “PSl. *nuta ‘cow, cattle’ (f. a-stem)”
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nuta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 359: “f. ā ‘cattle’”
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