Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/britva

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 *briti +‎ *-tva.

Noun

*brìtva f

razor

Inflection

Declension of *brìtva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*brìtva	*brìtvě	*brìtvy
Accusative	*brìtvǫ	*brìtvě	*brìtvy
Genitive	*brìtvy	*brìtvu	*brìtvъ
Locative	*brìtvě	*brìtvu	brìtvasъ, brìtvaxъ^*
Dative	*brìtvě	*brìtvama	*brìtvamъ
Instrumental	brìtvojǫ, brìtvǭ^**	*brìtvama	*brìtvamī
Vocative	*brìtvo	*brìtvě	*brìtvy

^* -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:
- Old Belarusian: бритва (britva)
- Russian: бри́тва (brítva)
  - → Skolt Sami: friitv
- Ukrainian: бри́тва (brýtva)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: бритва (britva)
  Glagolitic: ⰱⱃⰻⱅⰲⰰ (britva)
- Bulgarian: бри́тва (brítva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: бри̏тва
  Latin: brȉtva
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): brȉtva
  - Chakavian (Orbanići): brȉtva
- Slovene: britva
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: břitva
  - Czech: břitva
- Kashubian: brzitew, brzitwia
- Polish: brzytwa
- Slovak: britva
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: britej

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*brìtva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 63
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бри́тва”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress