Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lovitva

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 *loviti +‎ *-tva.

Noun

*lovitva f

catching, hunting
catch
trap (East Slavic only)

Synonyms

*lovjenьje, *lovьstvo, *lovlja
*lovina

Inflection

Declension of *lovitva (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*lovitva	*lovitvě	*lovitvy
Accusative	*lovitvǫ	*lovitvě	*lovitvy
Genitive	*lovitvy	*lovitvu	*lovitvъ
Locative	*lovitvě	*lovitvu	lovitvasъ, lovitvaxъ^*
Dative	*lovitvě	*lovitvama	*lovitvamъ
Instrumental	lovitvojǫ, lovitvǫ^**	*lovitvama	*lovitvami
Vocative	*lovitvo	*lovitvě	*lovitvy

^* -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 East Slavic: ловитва (lovitva)
  - Old Belarusian: ловитва (lovitva)
  - Russian: лови́тва (lovítva)
  - Old Ukrainian: ловитва (lovitva)
    - Ukrainian: лови́тва (lovýtva)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: ловитва (lovitva)
- Bulgarian: ловитба (lovitba), ловитва (lovitva), ловидба (lovidba)
- Macedonian: ловидба (lovidba)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ло̀витва, ло̀видба
  Latin: lòvitva
- Slovene: lovȋtev f, lovȋtva
West Slavic:
- Polish: łowitwa
- Slovincian: łov́itva

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lovitva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 108