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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dyňa
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From earlier *kъdyňa, from Latin māla cydōnia, from Ancient Greek κυδώνιον (μῆλον) (kudṓnion (mêlon), “quince”).[1]
Noun
*dỳňa f[2]
- melon
- Synonyms: *pьpešь, *piponъ
- watermelon (regionally)
Inflection
Declension of *dỳňa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *dỳňa | *dỳňi | *dỳňę̇ |
Accusative | *dỳňǫ | *dỳňi | *dỳňę̇ |
Genitive | *dỳňę̇ | *dỳňu | *dỳňь |
Locative | *dỳňī | *dỳňu | *dỳňāsъ |
Dative | *dỳňī | *dỳňama | *dỳňāmъ |
Instrumental | *dỳňējǫ, *dỳňǭ* | *dỳňama | *dỳňāmī |
Vocative | *dỳňe | *dỳňi | *dỳňę̇ |
* 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
- *kъduňa (“quince”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: дꙑнꙗ (dynja)
- Belarusian: ды́ня (dýnja)
- Russian: ды́ня (dýnja)
- Rusyn: ди́ня (dýnja, “watermelon”)
- Ukrainian: ди́ня (dýnja)
- Old East Slavic: дꙑнꙗ (dynja)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ди́ня (dínja, “melon (in Western Bulgaria), watermelon (in Eastern Bulgaria)”)
- Macedonian: диња (dinja)
- Serbo-Croatian: dȉnja
- Slovene: dínja, dȋnja (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: dýně (“pumpkin”)
- Czech: dýně (“pumpkin”)
- Polish: dynia (“pumpkin”)
- Old Czech: dýně (“pumpkin”)
- Others:
- Hungarian: dinnye
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ды́ня”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “dynja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; RPT 110)”