Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glota

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

Alternative reconstructions

*gъlota (Melnyčuk)

Etymology

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

*glota f

amalgamation, admixture
(in some dialects) contamination

Inflection

Declension of *glota (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*glota	*glotě	*gloty
Accusative	*glotǫ	*glotě	*gloty
Genitive	*gloty	*glotu	*glotъ
Locative	*glotě	*glotu	glotasъ, glotaxъ^*
Dative	*glotě	*glotama	*glotamъ
Instrumental	glotojǫ, glotǫ^**	*glotama	*glotami
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).

Derived terms

*glotiti
*glotьnъ
- *glotьnica (“pack, crowd”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: глота (glota, “crowd”)
- Ukrainian: гло́та (hlóta), глота́ (hlotá, “narrowing”); гліт m (hlit)
  - ⇒ Ukrainian: глоти́ти (hlotýty, “to squeeze”)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: гло́та (glóta) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: глотка (glotka) (diminutive)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: гло́та, гло̏та; гло̏т m
  
  Latin: glóta, glȍta; glȍt m
- Slovene: glȏta, glóta (tonal orthography) (dialectal)

Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: gloată (“band, mob”)