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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skotъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
The exact etymological provenance is contested.
Possibly a Germanic loanword, from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle”).
Noun
*skotъ m
- cattle
Declension
Declension of *skotъ (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *skotъ | *skota | *skoti |
Accusative | *skotъ | *skota | *skoty |
Genitive | *skota | *skotu | *skotъ |
Locative | *skotě | *skotu | *skotěxъ |
Dative | *skotu | *skotoma | *skotomъ |
Instrumental | *skotъmь, *skotomь* | *skotoma | *skoty |
Vocative | *skote | *skota | *skoti |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: скотъ (skotŭ)
- Old Ruthenian: скотъ (skot)
- Belarusian: скот (skot) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Belarusian: скоцíна (skócína)
- Ukrainian: скот (skot)
- Belarusian: скот (skot) (dialectal)
- Russian: скот (skot)
- Old Ruthenian: скотъ (skot)
- Old East Slavic: скотъ (skotŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: скотъ (skotŭ)
- Bulgarian: скот (skot)
- Macedonian: скот (skot)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ско̏т
- Latin: skȍt
- Slovene: skòt (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: skuot, skót
- Czech: skot
- Polabian: sküöt
- Old Polish: skot
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: skót
- Lower Sorbian: skót
- Old Czech: skuot, skót
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “скот”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress