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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zolto
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰólh₃tom (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). Cognate with Latvian zȩ̀lts, English gold. See also Persian زر (zar).
Noun
*zȏlto n[1][2]
- gold
Declension
Declension of *zȏlto (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *zȏlto | *zȏltě | *zoltà |
| Accusative | *zȏlto | *zȏltě | *zoltà |
| Genitive | *zȏlta | *zoltù | *zõltъ |
| Locative | *zȏltě | *zoltù | *zoltě̃xъ |
| Dative | *zȏltu | *zoltomà | *zoltòmъ |
| Instrumental | *zȏltъmь, *zȏltomь* | *zoltomà | *zoltý |
| Vocative | *zȏlto | *zȏltě | *zoltà |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *žьltъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: зо́лата (zólata)
- Russian: зо́лото (zóloto)
- Ukrainian: зо́лото (zóloto)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic::
- Old Cyrillic: злато (zlato), золъто (zolŭto)
- Glagolitic: ⰸⰾⰰⱅⱁ (zlato), ⰸⱁⰾⱏⱅⱁ (zolŭto)
- Bulgarian: злато́ (zlató)
- → Russian: зла́то (zláto)
- Macedonian: злато (zlato)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зла̑то
- Latin: zlȃto
- Slovene: zlatọ̑ (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic::
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: zlato
- Czech: zlato
- Kashubian: złoto
- Polabian: zlåtă
- Polish: złoto
- Slovak: zlato
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: złoto
- Upper Sorbian: złoto
- Old Czech: zlato
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “зо́лото”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “золото”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 328
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*zȍlto”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 547
- Kapović, Mate (2007), “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, University of Vienna, page 7: “*zȏlto”