Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lastovica

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

By surface analysis, *lastъka +‎ *-ica

Noun

*lastovica f^[1]^[2]

swallow

Inflection

Declension of *lastovica (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lastovica	*lastovici	*lastovicę̇
genitive	*lastovicę̇	*lastovicu	*lastovicь
dative	*lastovici	*lastovicama	*lastovicamъ
accusative	*lastovicǫ	*lastovici	*lastovicę̇
instrumental	lastovicejǫ, lastovicǫ^**	*lastovicama	*lastovicami
locative	*lastovici	*lastovicu	lastovicasъ, lastovicaxъ^*
vocative	*lastovice	*lastovici	*lastovicę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

*lastavica f

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ластовица (lastovica)
  - Old Ruthenian: ластовица (lastovica)
    - Ukrainian: ластови́ця (lastovýcja)
  - Russian: ла́стовица (lástovica) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic script: ⰾⰰⱄⱅⱁⰲⰻⱌⰰ (lastovica)
  
  Old Cyrillic script: ластовица (lastovica)
  - Bulgarian: ла́стовица (lástovica); ле́стовица (léstovica) (dialectal)
  - Macedonian: ластовица (lastovica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ла̏стовица
  
  Latin script: lȁstovica
- Old Slovene: lastovica
  - Slovene: lástovica (tonal orthography); lȃstḁi̭cḁ (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Czech: vlastovice, vlaštovice; laštovice (dialectal)
- Old Slovak: lastovica, vlastovica
  - Slovak: lastovica (poetic)
- Polabian: lostĕvaićă, lostovaićă
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: łastojca

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lastovica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 44
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “lastovica”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (MP 21)”

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lastovica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 44

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “lastovica”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (MP 21)”

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