Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plěva

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *plēwāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *plēw-eh₂. Cognate with Latvian plêve, Lithuanian plėvė̃ (“membrane”), Ancient Greek ἐπίπλοον (epíploon, “net around the intestines”).

Noun

*plěva f[1]

  1. membrane

Inflection

Declension of *plěva (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *plěva *plěvě *plěvy
genitive *plěvy *plěvu *plěvъ
dative *plěvě *plěvama *plěvamъ
accusative *plěvǫ *plěvě *plěvy
instrumental *plěvojǫ, *plěvǫ** *plěvama *plěvami
locative *plěvě *plěvu *plěvasъ, *plěvaxъ*
vocative *plěvo *plěvě *plěvy

* -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:
    • Belarusian: плева́ (pljevá)
    • Russian: плева́ (plevá)
    • Ukrainian: пліва́ (plivá)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Slovincian: plêwa

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плева́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plěva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 405: “f. ā ‘membrane’”
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