Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/Živa

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Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Nominalization of *živa f (“alive, live, living”).

Proper Noun

*Živa f

  1. (West and South Slavic) a female given name, Zhiva

Inflection

Declension of *Živa (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *Živa *Živě *Živy
genitive *Živy *Živu *Živъ
dative *Živě *Živama *Živamъ
accusative *Živǫ *Živě *Živy
instrumental *Živojǫ, *Živǫ** *Živama *Živami
locative *Živě *Živu *Živasъ, *Živaxъ*
vocative *Živo *Živě *Živy

* -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

  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: Жѝва (Žìva), ⇒ Жѝвка (Žìvka)
    • ⇒ Macedonian: Живка (Živka)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: Жива, ⇒ Живка
      Latin script: Živa, ⇒ Živka
    • Slovene: Žíva
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: Živa, ⇒ Živka, Živana
    • >? Old Polish: Żywa
      • Polish: Żywa, ⇒ Żywka
    • Slovak: Živa
    • Old Polabian: *Žyva (theonym, given name)

Further reading

  • Илчев, Стефан (1969) “Жива”, in Речник на личните и фамилни имена у българите [Dictionary of Bulgarian Personal and Family Names] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 17
  • Kovachev, Nikolay (1987) “”, in Честотно-тълковен речник на личните имена у българите [Frequency-interpretive dictionary of personal names among Bulgarians] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Петър Берон, page 95
  • Schlimpert, Gerhard (1978) “Živ-”, in Slawische Personennamen in mittelalterlichen Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte [Slavic personal names in medieval sources of German history] (in German), Berlin: Akademie Verlag, page 163
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