Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/navada
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *navaditi, derived from *vada (“conduct”).
Noun
*navada f[1]
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *navada | *navadě | *navady |
| genitive | *navady | *navadu | *navadъ |
| dative | *navadě | *navadama | *navadamъ |
| accusative | *navadǫ | *navadě | *navady |
| instrumental | *navadojǫ, *navadǫ** | *navadama | *navadami |
| locative | *navadě | *navadu | *navadasъ, *navadaxъ* |
| vocative | *navado | *navadě | *navady |
* -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:
- South Slavic:
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1996), “*navada”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 23 (*narodьnъjь – *navijakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 202