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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dělъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dailas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Lithuanian dailýti (“to divide”), Proto-Germanic *dailą, *dailiz.
Noun
*dě̃lъ m[1][2]
- part
Inflection
Declension of *dě̃lъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *dě̃lъ | *dě̄là | *dě̄lì |
Accusative | *dě̃lъ | *dě̄là | *dě̄lỳ |
Genitive | *dě̄là | *dě̄lù | *dě̃lъ |
Locative | *dě̄lě̀ | *dě̄lù | *dě̃lěxъ |
Dative | *dě̄lù | *dě̄lòma | *dě̄lòmъ |
Instrumental | *dě̄lъ̀mь, *dě̄lòmь* | *dě̄lòma | *dě̃ly |
Vocative | *děle | *dě̄là | *dě̄lì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *děliti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: дел (del) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: діл (dil)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Church Slavonic: дѣлъ (dělŭ) (Russian)
- Bulgarian: дял (djal)
- Macedonian: дел (del)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: део, дио
- Latin: deo, dio
- Chakavian (Novi): dél
- Chakavian (Orbanići): dⁱȇl
- Chakavian (Vrgada): dĩl
- Slovene: dẹ̄l, dẹ̄ł (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: diel
- Czech: díl
- Moravian (Mistřice): ďíu̯
- Czech: díl
- Kashubian: dzél
- Polish: dział
- Slovak: diel
- Slovincian: ʒė́l
- Old Czech: diel
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “дел”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dě́lъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 103: “m. o (b) ‘part’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “dělъ děla”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b part; boundary, watershed (NA 118f.)”