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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ěto
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-tóm, from *yeh₂-. Cognate with Sanskrit यात (yātá, “progress, course”).
Noun
*ě̀to n
- herd, flock
Inflection
Declension of *ě̀to (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *ě̀to | *ě̀tě | *ě̀ta |
| Accusative | *ě̀to | *ě̀tě | *ě̀ta |
| Genitive | *ě̀ta | *ě̀tu | *ě̀tъ |
| Locative | *ě̀tě | *ě̀tu | *ě̀tě̄xъ |
| Dative | *ě̀tu | *ě̀toma | *ě̀tomъ |
| Instrumental | *ě̀tъmь, *ě̀tomь* | *ě̀toma | *ě̀tȳ |
| Vocative | *ě̀to | *ě̀tě | *ě̀ta |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: ят (jat) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Church Slavonic ято (jato)
- Bulgarian: я́то (játo)
- Macedonian: јато (jato)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ја̏то
- Latin: jȁto
- Chakavian (Vrgada): jȁto
- Slovene: játo
- Old Church Slavonic:
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ě̀to”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 154