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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dětę
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *dětь (“child”) + *-ę.
Noun
*dě̄tę̀ or *dě̑tę n[1][2]
- child
Declension
Declension of *dě̄tę̀ (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *dě̄tę̀ | *dě̄tę̀ti | *dě̄tę̀tā |
| Accusative | *dě̄tę̀ | *dě̄tę̀ti | *dě̄tę̀tā |
| Genitive | *dě̄tę̀te | *dě̄tę̀tu | *dě̄tę̀tъ |
| Locative | *dě̄tę̀te | *dě̄tę̀tu | *dě̄tę̀tьxъ |
| Dative | *dě̄tę̀ti | *dě̄tę̀tьma | *dě̄tę̀tьmъ |
| Instrumental | *dě̄tę̀tьmь | *dě̄tę̀tьma | *dě̄tę̀tȳ |
| Vocative | *dě̄tę̀ | *dě̄tę̀ti | *dě̄tę̀tā |
Declension of *dě̑tę (nt-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *dě̑tę | *dě̑tęti | *dětętà |
| Accusative | *dě̑tę | *dě̑tęti | *dětętà |
| Genitive | *dě̑tęte | *dětętù | *dětę̃tъ |
| Locative | *dě̑tęte | *dětętù | *dětę̃tьxъ |
| Dative | *dě̑tęti | *dětętьmà | *dětę̃tьmъ |
| Instrumental | *dě̑tętьmь | *dětętьmà | *dětętý |
| Vocative | *dě̑tę | *dě̑tęti | *dětętà |
Related terms
- *bezdětьnъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: дѣтѧ́ (dětę́)
- Old Ruthenian: дѣтѧ́ (dětjá), дитѧ́ (ditjá)
- Belarusian: дзіця́ (dzicjá)
- Rusyn: дї́тя (djítja)
- Ukrainian: дитя́ (dytjá)
- Russian: дитя́ (ditjá)
- Old Ruthenian: дѣтѧ́ (dětjá), дитѧ́ (ditjá)
- Old East Slavic: дѣтѧ́ (dětę́)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: дѣтѧ (dětę)
- Glagolitic: ⰴⱑⱅⱔ (dětę)
- Bulgarian: дете́ (deté), дя́те (djáte) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: де́те (déte)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: де́те, дије́те
- Latin: déte, dijéte
- Slovene: déte
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: dietě
- Czech: dítě
- Kashubian: dzeckò, dzecã
- Polabian: detă
- Polish: dziecko, dziecię
- Silesian: dziycio
- Slovak: dieťa
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: źiśe
- Upper Sorbian: dźěćo
- Old Czech: dietě
Further reading
- Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics), volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 553
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dětę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 104: “n. nt ‘child’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “dětę”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 143)”