Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tělo

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tělo

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

Picture dictionary
Proto-Slavic/tělo
1=*golva2=*lice3=*vyja, *šija4=*ormo, *pleťe5=*pьrsь, *grǫdь6=*pǫpъ7=*břuxo, *červo8=*dymę9=*xujь10=*bedro11=*kolěno12=*golěnь, *piščalь13=*gleznъ16=*olkъtь18=*kytъka19=*pęstь, *dolnь10-14=*noga, *korkъ15-19=*rǫka

Etymology

Can be etymologically linked to *tьlěti (“to decay; to smolder”).[1]

Reconstruction notes

The dialectal Russian form тель (telʹ, “body”) is feminized and translated into another type of declension.

Noun

*tě̑lo n[2]

1. body

Declension

Declension of *tě̑lo (s-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*tě̑lo	*tě̑lesi	*tělesà
Accusative	*tě̑lo	*tě̑lesi	*tělesà
Genitive	*tě̑lese	*tělesù	*tělèsъ
Locative	*tě̑lese	*tělesù	*tělèsьxъ
Dative	*tě̑lesi	*tělesьmà	*tělèsьmъ
Instrumental	*tě̑lesьmь	*tělesьmà	*tělesý
Vocative	*tě̑lo	*tě̑lesi	*tělesà

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тѣло (tělo)
    • Old Ruthenian: тѣ́ло (tě́lo), ти́ло (tílo)
      • Belarusian: це́ла (cjéla)
      • Ukrainian: ті́ло (tílo)
    • Russian: те́ло (télo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: тѣло (tělo)

    Glagolitic: ⱅⱑⰾⱁ (tělo)

  • Bulgarian: тя́ло (tjálo)
  • Macedonian: тело (telo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: те̑ло, тије̑ло, тило

    Latin: tȇlo, tijȇlo, tilo

  • Slovene: telọ̑ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: tělo
    • Czech: tělo
  • Polish: ciało
  • Slovak: telo
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: ćělo
    • Lower Sorbian: śělo

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “тело”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. (1993), “тело”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 234
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “тѣло”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3: Р – Ꙗ и дополненія, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1091

References

1. Sayenko, Mikhail N. (2022) Очерки по славянской соматической лексике [Essays on Slavic somatic vocabulary]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Indrik, DOI:10.31168/91674-682-2, →ISBN, pages 25‒37
2. Kapović, Mate (2015) Povijest hrvatske akcentuacije. Fonetika [History of Croatian Accent. Phonetics]‎ (in Croatian), Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, →ISBN, page 241: “*tě̑lo”