cě̄và

cě̄và Grammatical information: f. ā Accent paradigm: b Proto-Slavic meaning: `shin-bone, tube, bobbin, spool'

Page in Trubačev: III 190-191

Russian:

cévka `bobbin, spool, (esp. hollow) bone, (dial.) shin-bone' [f ā];

kévka (Arx., Psk.) `bobbin, spool, (esp. hollow) bone, (dial.) shin-bone' [f ā] \{1\}

Czech:

céva `vein' [f ā]

Old Czech:

cěva `tube, spool' [f ā];

cieva `tube, spool' [f ā];

cievka `small tube' [f ā]

Slovak:

cieva `tube, vein' [f ā]

Upper Sorbian:

cywa `spool, reed' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

Čak. cȋva (Vrgada) `bobbin, spool' [f ā]

Slovene:

cẹ̑vka `bobbin, spool' [f ā]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: koi-u-aʔ; ḱoi-u-aʔ

Lithuanian:

šaivà `spool' [f ā] 4;

šeivà `spool, forearm, shin(-bone)' [f ā] 2/4

Latvian:

saĩva `bobbin' [f ā];

saĩve `bobbin' [f ē] \{2\}

Indo-European reconstruction: koi-u-

Page in Pokorny: 919-920

Comments: Apparently, the Baltic evidence points to *ḱ-, while Slavic hapoints to *k, while *c- < *k- as a result of the second palatalization. The plain velar must have originated in root variants with an s mobile.

Other cognates:

Skt. aṣṭhīvá(nt)- `shin'

\{3\};

Est. kääv `spool';

OHG scina `shin' [f];

OE scīa `shin'

Notes:

\{1\} North Russian attestations of this root showing initial k- are presented in Nikolaev 1988: 142-143. \{2\} Much better attested are sàiva², saîva², sàive² and saîve². \{3\} This may be a compound containing ast- and cīu̯a- (see Lubotsky 2002).