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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voda
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wandō, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of PIE r/n-stem heteroclitic *wódr̥.
Noun
*vodà f[1][2][3]
- water
Inflection
Declension of *vodà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *vodà | *vȍdě | *vȍdy |
| Accusative | *vȍdǫ | *vȍdě | *vȍdy |
| Genitive | *vodý | *vodù | *vòdъ |
| Locative | *vȍdě | *vodù | *vodàsъ, *vodàxъ* |
| Dative | *vodě̀ | *vodàma | *vodàmъ |
| Instrumental | *vodojǫ́ | *vodàma | *vodàmi |
| Vocative | *vodo | *vȍdě | *vȍdy |
* -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.
Related terms
- *vydra (“otter”)
- *vodъka (“vodka”)
- *vodьnъ (“watery”)
- *vodenъ (“watery place”)
- *vodenica (“watermill”)
Derived terms
- *vodica (diminutive)
- *vodьnikъ (“water spirit, washbasin”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вода (voda)
- Old Ruthenian: вода́ (vodá)
- Belarusian: вада́ (vadá)
- Rusyn: вода́ (vodá)
- Ukrainian: вода́ (vodá)
- Russian: вода́ (vodá)
- Old Ruthenian: вода́ (vodá)
- Old Novgorodian: вода (voda)
- Old East Slavic: вода (voda)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: вода (voda)
- Glagolitic: ⰲⱁⰴⰰ (voda)
- Bulgarian: вода́ (vodá)
- Macedonian: во́да (vóda)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: во̀да
- Latin: vòda
- Slovene: vóda (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: voda
- Czech: voda
- Kashubian: wòda
- Polabian: vådă
- Old Polish: woda
- Polish: woda
- Silesian: woda
- Slovak: voda
- Slovincian: vʉ̀ɵ̯dą
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wóda
- Upper Sorbian: woda
- Old Czech: voda
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “вода”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “вода”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 168
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vodà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 523: “f. ā (c) ‘water’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “voda vody”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c vand (SA 84, 94, 139, 172; PR 138; MP 19f.)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “vóda”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*voda̋”