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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sliva
Proto-Slavic
    
    Etymology
    
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sliˀwā́ˀ, presumably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”), from which also Proto-Germanic *slaihwǭ (“sloe”).
Inflection
    
Declension of *slìva (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *slìva | *slìvě | *slìvy | 
| genitive | *slìvy | *slìvu | *slìvъ | 
| dative | *slìvě | *slìvama | *slìvamъ | 
| accusative | *slìvǫ | *slìvě | *slìvy | 
| instrumental | *slìvojǫ, *slìvǭ** | *slìvama | *slìvamī | 
| locative | *slìvě | *slìvu | *slìvasъ, *slìvaxъ* | 
| vocative | *slìvo | *slìvě | *slìvy | 
* -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).
Descendants
    
- Old East Slavic: слива (sliva)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
    
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сли́ва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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