Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glota
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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
[edit]Alternative reconstructions
[edit]- *gъlota (Melnyčuk)
Etymology
[edit]Per Melnyčuk (EDUM), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to amass, to clot”), akin to Proto-West Germanic *klott (“clod, lump”), Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“fetus”). Trubačev (ESSJa) presumes heterogenous origin, with possibly influence from *golota (“nakedness”).
Noun
[edit]*glota f
- amalgamation, admixture
- (in some dialects) contamination
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *glota (hard a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *glota | *glotě | *gloty |
| genitive | *gloty | *glotu | *glotъ |
| dative | *glotě | *glotama | *glotamъ |
| accusative | *glotǫ | *glotě | *gloty |
| instrumental | *glotojǫ, *glotǫ** | *glotama | *glotami |
| locative | *glotě | *glotu | *glotasъ, *glotaxъ* |
| vocative | *gloto | *glotě | *gloty |
* -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).
** 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
[edit]- *glotiti
- *glotьnъ
- *glotьnica (“pack, crowd”)
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: gloată (“band, mob”)
Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glota/*glotъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 138
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “глота”, in Етимологічний словник української мови (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 528
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глота”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 251