Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cěvь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kaiw-is, *ḱaiw-is, from Proto-Indo-European *koy-w-.
Noun
*cě̑vь f[1]
Inflection
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *cě̑vь | *cě̑vi | *cě̑vi |
genitive | *cěví | *cěvьjù, *cěvľu* | *cěvь̀jь |
dative | *cě̑vi | *cěvьmà | *cě̑vьmъ |
accusative | *cě̑vь | *cě̑vi | *cě̑vi |
instrumental | *cěvьjǫ́ | *cěvьmà | *cěvьmì |
locative | *cěví | *cěvьjù, *cěvľu* | *cě̑vьxъ |
vocative | *cěvi | *cě̑vi | *cě̑vi |
* 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
- *cěvьca
- *cěvьje
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: цѣвь (cěvĭ)
- Old Novgorodian: *кѣвь (*kěvĭ)
- → Russian: кевь (kevʹ) (Pskov)
- ⇒ Russian: ке́вка f (kévka) (Pskov, Arkhangelsk)
- ⇒ Russian: кево́к m (kevók) (Pskov)
- Old Pskovian: *кѣвь (*kævĭ)
- → Finnic:
- Estonian: kääv; kääve (dialectal)
- Finnish: käävi, käämi, käämy
- Ingrian: kǟvü, kǟmü
- Karelian: keämi, keämie
- Ludian: kiämi, kiäm
- Veps: ḱäm
- Votic: tšǟvi, tšǟve
- Kukkuzi: kǟvü
- → Finnic:
- → Russian: кевь (kevʹ) (Pskov)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “цевка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*cěvь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 192
- (2005) Вопросы языкознания, Прибалтийско-финская лексика и восточнославянское языкознание, page 16
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*cě̑vь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 77: “f. i (c) ‘tube, spool’”