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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lastavica

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

By surface analysis, *lastъka +‎ *-ica

Noun

*lastavica f[1]

  1. swallow

Inflection
Declension of *lastavica (soft a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *lastavica *lastavici *lastavicę̇
genitive *lastavicę̇ *lastavicu *lastavicь
dative *lastavici *lastavicama *lastavicamъ
accusative *lastavicǫ *lastavici *lastavicę̇
instrumental *lastavicejǫ, *lastavicǫ** *lastavicama *lastavicami
locative *lastavici *lastavicu *lastavicasъ, *lastavicaxъ*
vocative *lastavice *lastavici *lastavicę̇
* -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).

Descendants
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: ла́стaвица (lástavica) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ла̏ставица
      Latin script: lȁstavica
    • Slovene: lástavica (tonal orthography)

References
  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lastavica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 42
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