Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pavъ

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

Borrowed from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Latvian pāvs, Lithuanian povas.

Noun

*pavъ m

peacock

Declension

Declension of *pavъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pavъ	*pava	*pavi
Accusative	*pavъ	*pava	*pavy
Genitive	*pava	*pavu	*pavъ
Locative	*pavě	*pavu	*pavěxъ
Dative	*pavu	*pavoma	*pavomъ
Instrumental	pavъmь, pavomь^*	*pavoma	*pavy
Vocative	*pave	*pava	*pavi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic: павъ (pavŭ)
- Russian: па́ва (páva)
- Ukrainian: па́ва (páva)
- Belarusian: па́ва (páva)
South Slavic:
- Slovene: páv
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: páv
  - Czech: páv
- Polish: paw
- Slovak: páv
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: paw
  - Lower Sorbian: paw
→ Hungarian: páva

References

Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “пава”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 614

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