Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelva

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 Proto-Indo-European *pelH-u-. Cognate with Lithuanian pẽlūs, Old Prussian pelwo, Sanskrit पलाव (palā́va, “chaff, husks”).

Noun

*pèlva f^[1]

chaff

Inflection

Declension of *pèlva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pèlva	*pèlvě	*pèlvy
genitive	*pèlvy	*pèlvu	*pèlvъ
dative	*pèlvě	*pèlvama	*pèlvamъ
accusative	*pèlvǫ	*pèlvě	*pèlvy
instrumental	pèlvojǫ, pèlvǭ^**	*pèlvama	*pèlvamī
locative	*pèlvě	*pèlvu	pèlvasъ, pèlvaxъ^*
vocative	*pèlvo	*pèlvě	*pèlvy

^* -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:
- Belarusian: пало́ва (palóva)
- Russian: поло́ва (polóva)
- Ukrainian: поло́ва (polóva)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: плѣва (plěva)
- Bulgarian: пля́ва (pljáva)
- Macedonian: плева (pleva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пле̏ва, пље̏ва
  
  Latin: plȅva, pljȅva
- Slovene: plẹ́va (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: pleva
  - Czech: pleva
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): plíva
- Polish: plewa
- Old Slovak: pleva
  - Slovak: pleva
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: pluwa
  - Lower Sorbian: plowa

Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: pelyva

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pèlva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395: “f. ā (a) ‘chaff ’”

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “полова”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2021), “*pelva/*pelvy/*pela/*pely?/*peleva (?)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 42 (*peča – *perzъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 83

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pèlva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395: “f. ā (a) ‘chaff ’”

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