Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pliska

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

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Noun

*pliska f

  1. wagtail (any bird of the genus Motacilla)

Inflection

Declension of *pliska (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *pliska *pliscě *plisky
genitive *plisky *plisku *pliskъ
dative *pliscě *pliskama *pliskamъ
accusative *pliskǫ *pliscě *plisky
instrumental *pliskojǫ, *pliskǫ** *pliskama *pliskami
locative *pliscě *plisku *pliskasъ, *pliskaxъ*
vocative *plisko *pliscě *plisky

* -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: пліска (pliska)
    • Russian: пли́ска (plíska), пли́стовка (plístovka), пли́стовица (plístovica), пли́сица (plísica), пли́шка (plíška), плизга́вица (plizgávica) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: пли́ска (plýska), пли́стка (plýstka), бли́ска (blýska)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пли́ска”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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