Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nuta

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

Considered a borrowing[1] from Proto-Germanic *nautą (“livestock”), likely fossilized as a collective of an ealier *nuto n + *-a. Probably cognate with Latvian nauda (“money”), Lithuanian naudà (“use, benefit”), whence dialectal Belarusian но́ўда (nóŭda), навда́ (navdá, “use, benefit”), Polish nawda (“advantage”).

Noun

*nùta f[2][1]

cattle

Declension

Declension of *nùta (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*nùta	*nùtě	*nùty
Accusative	*nùtǫ	*nùtě	*nùty
Genitive	*nùty	*nùtu	*nùtъ
Locative	*nùtě	*nùtu	nùtasъ, nùtaxъ^*
Dative	*nùtě	*nùtama	*nùtamъ
Instrumental	nùtojǫ, nùtǭ^**	*nùtama	*nùtamī
Vocative	*nùto	*nùtě	*nùty

^* -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).

Derived terms

*nutьnъ (relative adjective)
- *nutьnikъ (“owner, seller of cattle”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: нꙋта (nuta, “cattle”)
  - Russian: ну́та (núta, “livestock”) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: ноута (nuta, “cow, ox”)
- Slovene: núta (“herd”)
West Slavic:
- Polabian: nǫtǫ (sg. acc.)
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: nuta (“herd of cattle”) (archaic)

References

Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎ (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 81: “PSl. *nuta ‘cow, cattle’ (f. a-stem)”
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nuta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 359: “f. ā ‘cattle’”

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[Pronk-Tiethoff-1] Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎ (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 81: “PSl. *nuta ‘cow, cattle’ (f. a-stem)”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nuta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 359: “f. ā ‘cattle’”