Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golota

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *golъ +‎ *-ota.

Noun

*golota f

nakedness

Declension

Declension of *golota (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*golota	*golotě	*goloty
genitive	*goloty	*golotu	*golotъ
dative	*golotě	*golotama	*golotamъ
accusative	*golotǫ	*golotě	*goloty
instrumental	golotojǫ, golotǫ^**	*golotama	*golotami
locative	*golotě	*golotu	golotasъ, golotaxъ^*
vocative	*goloto	*golotě	*goloty

^* -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

East Slavic:
- Russian: голота́ (golotá) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: голо́та (holóta)
  - → Polish: hołota
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: голота́ (golotá)
- Macedonian: го́лота (gólota)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: голо̀та
  
  Latin script: golòta
- Slovene: golota
West Slavic:
- Czech: holota
- Polish: gołota (obsolete)
- Slovak: holota

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*golota”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 174
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “голо́та”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress