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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dupina
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *dupa + *-ina.
Noun
*dupina f
- hole
Inflection
Declension of *dupina (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *dupina | *dupině | *dupiny |
| Accusative | *dupinǫ | *dupině | *dupiny |
| Genitive | *dupiny | *dupinu | *dupinъ |
| Locative | *dupině | *dupinu | *dupinasъ, *dupinaxъ* |
| Dative | *dupině | *dupinama | *dupinamъ |
| Instrumental | *dupinojǫ, *dupinǫ** | *dupinama | *dupinami |
| Vocative | *dupino | *dupině | *dupiny |
* -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
- *dupiti
- *duplo
- *dupьnъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: дупина (dupina, “hole, grove, ditch”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: доупина (dupina, “opening”)
- Glagolitic: ⰴⱆⱂⰻⱀⰰ (dupina)
- Serbo-Croatian: duplja (“cavity in a tree trunk”)
- Slovene: dupína (“hole, hollow, cavity”)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Polish: dupina
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dupina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 125