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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pěxota
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *pěxъ + *-ota, the first element being derived from Proto-Indo-European *pēd-, a variant of *ped-.
Noun
*pěxota f
- infantry
Declension
Declension of *pěxota (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *pěxota | *pěxotě | *pěxoty |
Accusative | *pěxotǫ | *pěxotě | *pěxoty |
Genitive | *pěxoty | *pěxotu | *pěxotъ |
Locative | *pěxotě | *pěxotu | *pěxotasъ, *pěxotaxъ* |
Dative | *pěxotě | *pěxotama | *pěxotamъ |
Instrumental | *pěxotojǫ, *pěxotǫ** | *pěxotama | *pěxotami |
Vocative | *pěxoto | *pěxotě | *pěxoty |
* -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: пяхо́та (pjaxóta)
- Russian: пехо́та (pexóta)
- Ukrainian: піхо́та (pixóta)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: пехо́та (pehóta)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: pěchota
- Polish: piechota
- Slovak: pechota
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пехота”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress