Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nuta

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

Considered a borrowing[1] from Proto-West Germanic *naut (“cattle”), likely fossilized as a collective of an earlier *nuto n + *-a. Probably cognate with Latvian nauda (“money”), Lithuanian naudà (“use, benefit”), whence dialectal Belarusian но́ўда (nóŭda), навда́ (navdá, “use, benefit”), Polish nawda (“advantage”).

Noun

*nùta f[2][1]

  1. cattle

Declension

Declension of *nùta (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *nùta *nùtě *nùty
genitive *nùty *nùtu *nùtъ
dative *nùtě *nùtama *nùtamъ
accusative *nùtǫ *nùtě *nùty
instrumental *nùtojǫ, *nùtǭ** *nùtama *nùtamī
locative *nùtě *nùtu *nùtasъ, *nùtaxъ*
vocative *nùto *nùtě *nùty

* -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).

Derived terms

  • *nutьnъ (relative adjective)
    • *nutьnikъ (“owner, seller of cattle”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: нꙋта (nuta, “cattle”)
      • Russian: ну́та (núta, “livestock”) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: ноута (nuta, “cow, ox”)
    • Slovene: núta (“herd”)
  • West Slavic:
    • Polabian: nǫtǫ (sg. acc.)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: nuta (“herd of cattle”) (archaic)

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nuta”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 48
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “нута”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • “nauda”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎[1], Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 81: “PSl. *nuta ‘cow, cattle’ (f. a-stem)”
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nuta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 359: “f. ā ‘cattle’”
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