Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelva

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 Proto-Indo-European *pelH-u-. Cognate with Lithuanian pẽlūs, Old Prussian pelwo, Sanskrit पलाव (palā́va, “chaff, husks”).

Noun

*pèlva f[1]

chaff

Inflection

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pèlva	*pèlvě	*pèlvy
Accusative	*pèlvǫ	*pèlvě	*pèlvy
Genitive	*pèlvy	*pèlvu	*pèlvъ
Locative	*pèlvě	*pèlvu	pèlvasъ, pèlvaxъ^*
Dative	*pèlvě	*pèlvama	*pèlvamъ
Instrumental	pèlvojǫ, pèlvǭ^**	*pèlvama	*pèlvamī
Vocative	*pèlvo	*pèlvě	*pèlvy

^* -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:
- Belarusian: пало́ва (palóva)
- Russian: поло́ва (polóva)
- Ukrainian: поло́ва (polóva)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: плѣва (plěva)
- Bulgarian: пля́ва (pljáva)
- Macedonian: плева (pleva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: пле̏ва, пље̏ва
  Latin: plȅva, pljȅva
- Slovene: plẹ́va (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: pleva
  - Czech: pleva
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): plíva
- Polish: plewa
- Slovak: pleva
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: pluwa
  - Lower Sorbian: plowa

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pèlva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395: “f. ā (a) ‘chaff ’”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pèlva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395: “f. ā (a) ‘chaff ’”