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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mydlo
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *myti (“to wash”) + *-dlo (instrument suffix).
Noun
*mỳdlo n[1][2]
- soap
Declension
Declension of *mỳdlo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *mỳdlo | *mỳdlě | *mỳdla |
| Accusative | *mỳdlo | *mỳdlě | *mỳdla |
| Genitive | *mỳdla | *mỳdlu | *mỳdlъ |
| Locative | *mỳdlě | *mỳdlu | *mỳdlě̄xъ |
| Dative | *mỳdlu | *mỳdloma | *mỳdlomъ |
| Instrumental | *mỳdlъmь, *mỳdlomь* | *mỳdloma | *mỳdlȳ |
| Vocative | *mỳdlo | *mỳdlě | *mỳdla |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мꙑ́ло (mýlo)
- Belarusian: мы́ла (mýla)
- Russian: мы́ло (mýlo)
- → Ingrian: muila
- → Nivkh: мыло (məlo)
- → Yakut: мыыла (mııla)
- Rusyn: мыдло (mŷdlo)
- Ukrainian: ми́ло (mýlo)
- Old Novgorodian: мꙑ́гло (mýglo)
- Old East Slavic: мꙑ́ло (mýlo)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: мꙑло (mylo)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⱏⰻⰾⱁ (mylo)
- Bulgarian: ми́ло (mílo) (dated, biblical)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ми̏ло (dated)
- Latin: mȉlo (dated)
- Slovene: mílo (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: mýdlo
- Czech: mýdlo
- Kashubian: mëdło
- Polish: mydło
- Slovak: mydlo
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mydło
- Upper Sorbian: mydło
- Old Czech: mýdlo
- Non-Slavic:
- → Proto-Finnic: *mukla (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “мы́ло”, 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), “*mỳdlo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 336: “n. o (a) ‘soap’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “mydlo, pl. mydla”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (for †mydlъ) (NA 115; SA 151)”