Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/divizna

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

*divizna – Verbascum densiflorum

Etymology

The form *divina for this plant seems secondary by relation to the suffix *-ina, somewhat interchangeable with *-izna, *divina literally meaning any animal or plant product of wild (*divъ) origin; a contamination is also patent with *devęsilъ looking at the Slovak form. A derivation from *divъ (“wild”) is uncertain though tempting. The word is recorded for Dacian as διέσεμα, a borrowing from which has been considered, it is also attested however in Lithuanian devynspė͂kė, devynjėgė, still meaning the same plant, but reconstructions for Proto-Indo-European are too daring because this is the limited distribution of the plant name.

Noun

*divizna f

mullein (Verbascum spp.)
Synonym: *lopěnъ

Inflection

Declension of *divizna (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*divizna	*divizně	*divizny
Accusative	*diviznǫ	*divizně	*divizny
Genitive	*divizny	*diviznu	*diviznъ
Locative	*divizně	*diviznu	diviznasъ, diviznaxъ^*
Dative	*divizně	*diviznama	*diviznamъ
Instrumental	diviznojǫ, diviznǫ^**	*diviznama	*diviznami
Vocative	*divizno	*divizně	*divizny

^* -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

all have been checked and have the meaning Verbascum

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: дзiвáнна (dzivánna), dialectally also дзiвана (dzivana), дзiвена (dzivjena)
- Russian: дива́нка (divánka), дивена (divena), дивина (divina) (all only regionally, and the stress is not told save for the first in Даль)
- Ukrainian: дивина́ (dyvyná) (standard stress, dialectally also диви́на (dyvýna))
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: диви́зна (divízna), диви́зма (divízma) (of limited currency)
- Macedonian: дивизма (divizma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: дивѝзма
  Latin: divìzma
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: divizna
  - Czech: divizna
- Polish: dziewanna, dialectally dziwizna
- Slovak: divizna, displaced by now standard divozel
- Sorbian:
  Upper Sorbian: dźiwizna

References

Anikin, A. E. (2019), “дивена”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 13 (два – дигло), Moscow: V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 357
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*divizna”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 33