< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/četa
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷeteh₂ "pair", from Proto-Indo-European *kʷet- "to fit together".
Noun
*četa f
- company
Declension
Declension of *četa (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *četa | *četě | *čety |
| Accusative | *četǫ | *četě | *čety |
| Genitive | *čety | *četu | *četъ |
| Locative | *četě | *četu | *četasъ, *četaxъ* |
| Dative | *četě | *četama | *četamъ |
| Instrumental | *četojǫ, *četǫ** | *četama | *četami |
| Vocative | *četo | *četě | *čety |
* -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 East Slavic: чета (četa)
- Russian: чета́ (četá)
- Old East Slavic: чета (četa)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: чета (četa)
- Glagolitic: ⱍⰵⱅⰰ (četa)
- Bulgarian: че́та (čéta)
- Macedonian: чета (četa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: че̏та
- Latin: čȅta
- Slovene:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: četa
- Slovak: čata
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: csata
- Polish: czata
- → Romanian: ceată
- → Hungarian: csata
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чета́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress