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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kolęda
Proto-Slavic
    
    
Declension
    
Declension of *kolęda (hard a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kolęda | *kolędě | *kolędy | 
| genitive | *kolędy | *kolędu | *kolędъ | 
| dative | *kolędě | *kolędama | *kolędamъ | 
| accusative | *kolędǫ | *kolędě | *kolędy | 
| instrumental | *kolędojǫ, *kolędǫ** | *kolędama | *kolędami | 
| locative | *kolędě | *kolędu | *kolędasъ, *kolędaxъ* | 
| vocative | *kolędo | *kolędě | *kolędy | 
* -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
    
- *kolędovati
Descendants
    
- Church Slavonic: колꙗда (koljada) (Russian)
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
    
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “коляда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kolęda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 135
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “коляда”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 415
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