Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rota
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Possibly:
- from an earlier *wrotā, from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to speak, say”) (whence also Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”)); cognate with Sanskrit व्रत (vratám), Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬀 (urvāta), Ancient Greek ῥητός (rhētós). This appears to be the commonly accepted etymology.[1]
- from an earlier *roktā, from *reťi (“to say”) + *-ta.[2]
Noun
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *rotà | *rȍtě | *rȍty |
| genitive | *rotý | *rotù | *ròtъ |
| dative | *rotě̀ | *rotàma | *rotàmъ |
| accusative | *rȍtǫ | *rȍtě | *rȍty |
| instrumental | *rotojǫ́ | *rotàma | *rotàmi |
| locative | *rȍtě | *rotù | *rotàsъ, *rotàxъ* |
| vocative | *roto | *rȍtě | *rȍty |
* -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.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
verbs
- *rotiti
nouns
- *porota
- *rotьba
- *zarota
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Snoj, Marko (2016) “rotiti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “iz *rota̋ ‛prisega’,”
- ^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рота”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “rota roty”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b/c ed (PR 135)”
Further reading
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “рота”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments][2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 176