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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kavъka
Proto-Slavic
    
    Etymology
    
Onomatopoeic.
Inflection
    
Declension of *kavъka (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *kavъka | *kavъcě | *kavъky | 
| Accusative | *kavъkǫ | *kavъcě | *kavъky | 
| Genitive | *kavъky | *kavъku | *kavъkъ | 
| Locative | *kavъcě | *kavъku | *kavъkasъ, *kavъkaxъ* | 
| Dative | *kavъcě | *kavъkama | *kavъkamъ | 
| Instrumental | *kavъkojǫ, *kavъkǫ** | *kavъkama | *kavъkami | 
| Vocative | *kavъko | *kavъcě | *kavъky | 
* -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).
Descendants
    
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ка́ўка (káŭka)
- Rusyn: ка́вка (kávka)
- Ukrainian: ка́вка (kávka) (dialectal)
 
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ка́вка (kávka) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ка̑вка
 
- Slovene: kȃvka (tonal orthography)
 
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: ceucă
 
Further reading
    
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ка́ва”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
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