Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děľa

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děľa

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

Etymology

Connected with *dělo. Possibly influenced by *dьliti. Baltic cognates include Latvian dēļ, Lithuanian dė̃l (both possibly borrowings from Slavic).

Preposition

*dě̀ľa[1][2]

1. because of
2. for the purpose of

Alternative forms

• *děľьma
• *dьľa

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дѣлꙗ (dělja)
    • Belarusian: дзеле (dzjelje)
    • Russian: для (dlja)
    • Ukrainian: ді́ля (dílja) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: дѣлꙗ (dělja)

    Glagolitic: ⰴⱑⰾⰻⰰ (dělia)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: дијел, диљ (archaic)

    Latin: dijel, dilja (Croatian)

  • Slovene: dẹ̑lj
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dle
  • Kashubian: dlô
  • Old Polish: dziela
    • Polish: dla, dlá (obsolete or dialectal)
  • Slovak: dľa

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “деля”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*děļa; *děļьma; *děļa; *dьļa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102: “prep. ‘because of ’”
2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “zatẹ̑gadẹ̄lj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *dě̋l'a ‛zaradi’”