Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polnina

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *polnъ (“barren, vain”) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*polnìna f

barren highlands, plateau
mountain (in South Slavic)

Inflection

Declension of *polnìna (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*polnìna	*polnině	*polniny
Accusative	*polninǫ	*polnině	*polniny
Genitive	*polniny	*polninu	*polninъ
Locative	*polnině	*polninu	polninasъ, polninaxъ^*
Dative	*polnině	*polninama	*polninamъ
Instrumental	polninojǫ, polninǫ^**	*polninama	*polninami
Vocative	*polnìno	*polnině	*polniny

^* -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).

Related terms

*polnota (“flatness”)
*polninьcь (“mountaineer”)

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: планина (planina)
- Bulgarian: планина (planina)
- Macedonian: планина (planina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: пла̀нина
  Latin: plànina
- Slovene: planína
West Slavic:
- Polish: płonina (“bare land”)

References

Duridanov I., Račeva M., Todorov T., editors (1996), “планина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 303
Snoj, Marko (2016), “planína”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN