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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zavada
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *zavaditi + *-a, from *za + *vaditi.
Noun
*zavada f
Declension
Declension of *zavada (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *zavada | *zavadě | *zavady |
| Accusative | *zavadǫ | *zavadě | *zavady |
| Genitive | *zavady | *zavadu | *zavadъ |
| Locative | *zavadě | *zavadu | *zavadasъ, *zavadaxъ* |
| Dative | *zavadě | *zavadama | *zavadamъ |
| Instrumental | *zavadojǫ, *zavadǫ** | *zavadama | *zavadami |
| Vocative | *zavado | *zavadě | *zavady |
* -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:
- Old Ruthenian: зава́да (zaváda)
- Belarusian: зава́да (zaváda)
- Ukrainian: зава́да (zaváda)
- Russian: зава́да (zaváda) (dialectal)
- Old Ruthenian: зава́да (zaváda)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за̑вада
- Latin: zȃvada
- Slovene: zavȃda
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: závada
- Czech: závada
- Slovak: závada
- Old Polish: zawada
- Polish: zawada
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: zawada
- Lower Sorbian: zawada
- Old Czech: závada
Further reading
- Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1985), “за́вада”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volume 3 (га! – інчэ́), Minsk: Navuka i technika