< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kavъka
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
*kavъka f
- jackdaw (corvid)
- Synonym: *čavъka
Inflection
Declension of *kavъka (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *kavъka | *kavъcě | *kavъky |
Accusative | *kavъkǫ | *kavъcě | *kavъky |
Genitive | *kavъky | *kavъku | *kavъkъ |
Locative | *kavъcě | *kavъku | *kavъkasъ, *kavъkaxъ* |
Dative | *kavъcě | *kavъkama | *kavъkamъ |
Instrumental | *kavъkojǫ, *kavъkǫ** | *kavъkama | *kavъkami |
Vocative | *kavъko | *kavъcě | *kavъky |
* -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:
- Belarusian: ка́ўка (káŭka)
- Rusyn: ка́вка (kávka)
- Ukrainian: ка́вка (kávka) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ка́вка (kávka) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка̑вка
- Slovene: kȃvka (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: kavka
- Kashubian: kôwka
- Polish: kawka
- Slovak: kavka
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kawka
- Upper Sorbian: kawka
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: ceucă
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ка́ва”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress