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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golota
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *golъ + *-ota.
Noun
*golota f
- nakedness
Declension
Declension of *golota (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *golota | *golotě | *goloty |
Accusative | *golotǫ | *golotě | *goloty |
Genitive | *goloty | *golotu | *golotъ |
Locative | *golotě | *golotu | *golotasъ, *golotaxъ* |
Dative | *golotě | *golotama | *golotamъ |
Instrumental | *golotojǫ, *golotǫ** | *golotama | *golotami |
Vocative | *goloto | *golotě | *goloty |
* -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).
** 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:
- Russian: голота́ (golotá) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: голо́та (holóta)
- → Polish: hołota
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: голота́ (golotá)
- Macedonian: го́лота (gólota)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: голо̀та
- Latin: golòta
- Slovene: golota
- West Slavic:
- Czech: holota
- Polish: gołota (obsolete)
- Slovak: holota
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*golota”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 174
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “голо́та”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress