Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cęta

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

Probably from Vulgar Latin *centus.

Noun

*cęta f

small coin

Declension

Declension of *cęta (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*cęta	*cę̀tě	*cę̀ty
genitive	*cę̀ty	*cę̀tu	*cę̀tъ
dative	*cę̀tě	*cę̀tama	*cę̀tamъ
accusative	*cę̀tǫ	*cę̀tě	*cę̀ty
instrumental	cę̀tojǫ, cę̀tǭ^**	*cę̀tama	*cę̀tamī
locative	*cę̀tě	*cę̀tu	cę̀tasъ, cę̀taxъ^*
vocative	*cę̀to	*cę̀tě	*cę̀ty

^* -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

East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: цята (cjata)
South Slavic:
- Church Slavonic: цѧта (cęta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: цета
  
  Latin script: ceta
West Slavic:
- Czech: cetka
- Polish: cętka

Non-Slavic:
- Romanian: țintă

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*cęta”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 194