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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/navь

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nā́ˀwis, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w-. Cognate with Latvian nāve (“death”), nāvēt (“to kill”), Lithuanian nõvis (“death”), Old Prussian nowis (“body, flesh”).[1] Indo-European cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍃 (naus, “dead body, corpse”), Old Irish núna (“hunger”) and Tocharian B naut- (“to disappear; be destroyed”).

Noun

*navь f

  1. corpse
  2. deceased

Inflection
Declension of *navь (i-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *navь *navi *navi
genitive *navi *navьju, *navľu* *navьjь, *navi*
dative *navi *navьma *navьmъ
accusative *navь *navi *navi
instrumental *navьjǫ, *navľǫ* *navьma *navьmi
locative *navi *navьju, *navľu* *navьxъ
vocative *navi *navi *navi
* 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
  • *naviti
  • *navьnъ
  • *navьka
  • *navьskъ
  • *navьje

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: навь (navĭ), навье (navĭe)
      • Russian: навь (navʹ); навной (navnoj), намной (namnoj)
      • Ukrainian: нявка (njavka), мавка (mavka); Навський Великдень (Navsʹkyj Velykdenʹ, “Pentecost”)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: навь (navĭ)
    • Bulgarian: нави (navi) (plural only)
    • Macedonian: нави (navi) (plural only)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: на̑в, на̑вье
      Latin script: nȃv, nȃvje
    • Slovene: nȃv, nȃvje
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: náv
    • Polish: nawia, nawka
    • Slovak: náva, nava, nav

References
  1. Razauskas, Dainius (2011). “Ryba - mifologičeskij Proobraz lodki" [The Fish As a Mythological Prototype of the Boat]. In: Studia Mythologica Slavica 14 (October). Ljubljana, Slovenija, 296, 303. https://doi.org/10.3986/sms.v14i0.1614.

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “навь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*navь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 49
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