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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žito
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *geiˀta, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃tom, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-.
Baltic cognates include Old Prussian geytye, geits (“bread”).
Indo-European cognates include Irish biathaim, Welsh bwyd (“food, meat”).
Noun
*žìto n
- grain, corn
Inflection
Declension of *žìto (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *žìto | *žìtě | *žìta |
Accusative | *žìto | *žìtě | *žìta |
Genitive | *žìta | *žìtu | *žìtъ |
Locative | *žìtě | *žìtu | *žìtě̄xъ |
Dative | *žìtu | *žìtoma | *žìtomъ |
Instrumental | *žìtъmь, *žìtomь* | *žìtoma | *žìtȳ |
Vocative | *žìto | *žìtě | *žìta |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *gojь
- *žiti (“to live”)
- *živica
- *životъ (“life”)
- *živъ (“alive”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: жы́та (žýta)
- Russian: жи́то (žíto)
- Old Ukrainian: жито (žito)
- Ukrainian: жи́то (žýto)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: жито (žito)
- Bulgarian: жи́то (žíto)
- Macedonian: жи́то (žíto)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: žȉto
- Cyrillic: жи̏то
- Slovene: žito
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: žito
- Czech: žito (“rye”)
- Moravian (Mistřice): žito (“wheat”)
- Czech: žito (“rye”)
- Polabian: zaitü
- Old Polish: żyto
- Polish: żyto
- Slovak: žito
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: žito
- Lower Sorbian: žyto
- Old Czech: žito
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*žìto”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 563
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “жито”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress