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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dętelina
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *dętelъ + *-ina.
Noun
*dętelina f
- clover
Declension
Declension of *dętelina (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *dętelina | *dętelině | *dęteliny |
Accusative | *dętelinǫ | *dętelině | *dęteliny |
Genitive | *dęteliny | *dętelinu | *dętelinъ |
Locative | *dętelině | *dętelinu | *dętelinasъ, *dętelinaxъ* |
Dative | *dętelině | *dętelinama | *dętelinamъ |
Instrumental | *dętelinojǫ, *dętelinǫ** | *dętelinama | *dętelinami |
Vocative | *dętelino | *dętelině | *dęteliny |
* -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).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: дзятліна (dzjatlina), дзяцеліна (dzjacjelina) (dialectal)
- Russian: дя́тлина (djátlina)
- Ukrainian: дятли́на (djatlýna) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: детели́на (detelína)
- Macedonian: детелина (detelina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: де̏телина, дје̏телина
- Latin: dȅtelina, djȅtelina
- Slovene: d'ę́telja (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: jetelina
- Polish: dzięcielina
- Slovak: ďatelina
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “дя́тлина”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress