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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolzina
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *balźeinas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, to bulge”). Cognate with Latvian bàlziêns (“cross-beam”), Lithuanian balžíenas (“cross-beam”), Old Prussian balsinis (“cushion”), pobalso (“bolster”).
Noun
*bolzìna f[1][2]
- beam, board (used for support)
- Synonyms: *dъska, *gręda
- (figurative) cushion, pillow
Inflection
Declension of *bolzìna (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *bolzìna | *bolzině | *bolziny |
| Accusative | *bolzinǫ | *bolzině | *bolziny |
| Genitive | *bolziny | *bolzinu | *bolzinъ |
| Locative | *bolzině | *bolzinu | *bolzinasъ, *bolzinaxъ* |
| Dative | *bolzině | *bolzinama | *bolzinamъ |
| Instrumental | *bolzinojǫ, *bolzinǫ** | *bolzinama | *bolzinami |
| Vocative | *bolzìno | *bolzině | *bolziny |
* -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).
Related terms
- *bolzьno, *bolzьmo (“supporting board”)
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бла̀зина
- Latin: blàzina
- Slovene: blazína
- Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bolzina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 183
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bolzìna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54: “f. ā ‘beam’”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “blazina”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “pslovan. *bolzi̋na”