Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/niščeta

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 *niščь +‎ *-ota

Noun

*niščeta f

poverty

Inflection

Declension of *niščeta (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*niščeta	*niščetě	*niščety
genitive	*niščety	*niščetu	*niščetъ
dative	*niščetě	*niščetama	*niščetamъ
accusative	*niščetǫ	*niščetě	*niščety
instrumental	niščetojǫ, niščetǫ^**	*niščetama	*niščetami
locative	*niščetě	*niščetu	niščetasъ, niščetaxъ^*
vocative	*niščeto	*niščetě	*niščety

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: нищета (niščeta)
  - Old Ruthenian: нищета́ (niščetá)
    - Belarusian: нішчэ́та (niščéta) (dialectal)
    - Ukrainian: нищота́ (nyščotá), нищета́ (nyščetá)
  - Russian: нищета́ (niščetá); нищата́ (niščatá) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: нищета (ništeta), ништета (ništeta)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱀⰺⱋⰵⱅⰰ (ništeta), ⱀⰺⱎⱅⰵⱅⰰ (ništeta)
- Bulgarian: нищета̀ (ništetà)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ништета, ништет (obsolete)
  
  Latin script: ništeta, ništet (obsolete)
- Slovene: niščeta (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Polish: niszczota
  - Polish: niszczota (dialectal)
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: ńišćota (obsolete)