Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vina

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

Fossilized verbal noun of otherwise obsolete Proto-Balto-Slavic *wīˀtei (“to persecute”) + *-na, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to hunt, to chase”). Akin to Latvian vaĩna (“guilt”), Lithuanian vainà (“guilt”) (with o-grade ablaut).

Noun

*vinà f[1]

fault, guilt

Inflection

Declension of *vinà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vinà	*vȋně	*vȋny
Accusative	*vȋnǫ	*vȋně	*vȋny
Genitive	*viný	*vinù	*vĩnъ
Locative	*vȋně	*vinù	vinàsъ, vinàxъ^*
Dative	*vině̀	*vinàma	*vinàmъ
Instrumental	*vinojǫ́	*vinàma	*vinàmi
Vocative	*vino	*vȋně	*vȋny

^* -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.

Derived terms

adjectives

*nevinьnъ
*vinьnъ
*vinovьnъ

verbs

*viniti
*vinovati

Related terms

*vojьna (“war”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вина (vina)
  - Old Ruthenian: вина (vina)
    - Belarusian: віна́ (viná)
    - Ukrainian: вина́ (vyná)
  - Russian: вина́ (viná)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: вина (vina)
- Bulgarian: вина́ (viná)
- Macedonian: вина (vina)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vina
  - Czech: vina
- Old Polish: wina
  - Polish: wina
- Slovak: vina
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wina
  - Upper Sorbian: wina

Non-Slavic
- → Romanian: vină

References

Olander, Thomas (2001), “vina viny”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c skyld (PR 135)”

[1] Olander, Thomas (2001), “vina viny”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c skyld (PR 135)”