Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nizina

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nizina

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

From *nizъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*nizina f

1. lowland

Declension

Declension of *nizina (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*nizina	*nizině	*niziny
Accusative	*nizinǫ	*nizině	*niziny
Genitive	*niziny	*nizinu	*nizinъ
Locative	*nizině	*nizinu	*nizinasъ, *nizinaxъ*
Dative	*nizině	*nizinama	*nizinamъ
Instrumental	*nizinojǫ, *nizinǫ**	*nizinama	*nizinami
Vocative	*nizino	*nizině	*niziny

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: низина (nizina)
    • Belarusian: нізіна (nizina)
    • Russian: низи́на (nizína)
    • Ukrainian: низина́ (nyzyná)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: низина́ (niziná)
  • Macedonian: низина (nizina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: низѝна

    Latin: nizìna

  • Slovene: nizína (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: nížina
  • Polish: nizina
  • Slovak: nížina
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: nížina
    • Lower Sorbian: nížyna

Further reading

• Georgiev V. I., Duridanov I., editor (1995), “низина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 641
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nizina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 141