Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/niščeta

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

From *niščь +‎ *-ota

Noun

*niščeta f

  1. poverty

Inflection

Declension of *niščeta (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *niščeta *niščetě *niščety
genitive *niščety *niščetu *niščetъ
dative *niščetě *niščetama *niščetamъ
accusative *niščetǫ *niščetě *niščety
instrumental *niščetojǫ, *niščetǫ** *niščetama *niščetami
locative *niščetě *niščetu *niščetasъ, *niščetaxъ*
vocative *niščeto *niščetě *niščety

* -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:
    • Old East Slavic: нищета (niščeta)
      • Old Ruthenian: нищета́ (niščetá)
        • Belarusian: нішчэ́та (niščéta) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: нищота́ (nyščotá), нищета́ (nyščetá)
      • Russian: нищета́ (niščetá); нищата́ (niščatá) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: нищета (ništeta), ништета (ništeta)
      Glagolitic script: ⱀⰺⱋⰵⱅⰰ (ništeta), ⱀⰺⱎⱅⰵⱅⰰ (ništeta)
    • Bulgarian: нищета̀ (ništetà)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ништета, ништет (obsolete)
      Latin script: ništeta, ništet (obsolete)
    • Slovene: niščeta (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Polish: niszczota
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: ńišćota (obsolete)

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*niščeta”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 122
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