Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stavъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *stāw-, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂-ēw- (Author?), a form of *steh₂-.
Compare Lithuanian stovà (“place”), stõvis (“state, condition”), Latvian stàvs m, Ancient Greek στοά (stoá), Aeolic στωΐα (stōḯa, “column”), Proto-Germanic *stōō (> Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌰 (staua, “trial”), Old English stów f (“place”)).
Noun
*stavъ m
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *stavъ | *stava | *stavi |
| genitive | *stava | *stavu | *stavъ |
| dative | *stavu | *stavoma | *stavomъ |
| accusative | *stavъ | *stava | *stavy |
| instrumental | *stavъmь, *stavomь* | *stavoma | *stavy |
| locative | *stavě | *stavu | *stavěxъ |
| vocative | *stave | *stava | *stavi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *ostavъ
- *sǫstavъ
- *staviti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “став”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ставъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments][1] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 488