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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sъmetana
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Related to *metati.
Noun
*sъmetana f
- cream
Inflection
Declension of *sъmetana (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *sъmetana | *sъmetaně | *sъmetany |
Accusative | *sъmetanǫ | *sъmetaně | *sъmetany |
Genitive | *sъmetany | *sъmetanu | *sъmetanъ |
Locative | *sъmetaně | *sъmetanu | *sъmetanasъ, *sъmetanaxъ* |
Dative | *sъmetaně | *sъmetanama | *sъmetanamъ |
Instrumental | *sъmetanojǫ, *sъmetanǫ** | *sъmetanama | *sъmetanami |
Vocative | *sъmetano | *sъmetaně | *sъmetany |
* -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: смята́на (smjatána)
- Russian: смета́на (smetána)
- → Armenian: սմետան (smetan)
- → English: smetana
- → Finnish: smetana
- → French: smitane
- → English: smitane
- Rusyn: смета́на (smetána)
- Ukrainian: смета́на (smetána)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: сметана (smetana)
- Slovene: smẹ́tana (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: smetana
- → German: Schmetten
- Kashubian: smiotana
- Polabian: såmătonă
- Old Polish: śmiatana, śmiotana
- Polish: śmietana
- Silesian: śmietōna
- Slovak: smotana
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: smjetana
- Lower Sorbian: sḿetana
- Czech: smetana
- Non-Slavic
- → Middle Low German: smand (possibly)
- → German: Schmand, Schmant
- → Middle Low German: smand (possibly)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “смета́на”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress