Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ploča

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 late Proto-Indo-European *plek- (“to flatten”), akin to Lithuanian plõkas (“table, flat surface”), Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx, “flat surface”).

Noun

*plòča f^[1] (South Slavic)

plate, slab
flagstone

Alternative forms

*ploka

Inflection

Declension of *ploča (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ploča	*ploči	*pločę̇
genitive	*pločę̇	*ploču	*pločь
dative	*ploči	*pločama	*pločamъ
accusative	*pločǫ	*ploči	*pločę̇
instrumental	pločejǫ, pločǫ^**	*pločama	*pločami
locative	*ploči	*ploču	pločasъ, pločaxъ^*
vocative	*ploče	*ploči	*pločę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

*ploskъ (“flat, smooth”)
- *ploščь, *ploščadь (“area, plane”)
*ploxa (“surface”)

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: пло́ча (plóča)
- Macedonian: плоча (ploča)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пло̏ча
  
  Latin script: plȍča
- Slovene: plọ́ča, ploka (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
  - ⇒ Slovene: pločevína

Non-Slavic:
- → Albanian: ploçe
- → Aromanian: ploța
- → Romanian: plocea

References

^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “pločevína”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *plòča”