Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ablonica

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 *ablonь (“apple tree”) +‎ *-ica

Noun

*àblonica f^[1]

(West and South Slavic, botany) apple tree? apple orchard?

Declension

Declension of *àblonica (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*àblonica	*àblonici	*àblonicę̇
genitive	*àblonicę̇	*àblonicu	*àblonicь
dative	*àblonicī	*àblonicama	*àblonicāmъ
accusative	*àblonicǫ	*àblonici	*àblonicę̇
instrumental	àblonicējǫ, àblonicǭ^*	*àblonicama	*àblonicāmī
locative	*àblonicī	*àblonicu	*àblonicāsъ
vocative	*àblonice	*àblonici	*àblonicę̇

^* 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

nouns

*ablo n (“apple”)
*ablonišče n (“apple orchard”)
*ablonьje n (“apple trees”)
*abloňa f (“apple tree”)
*ablušьko n (diminutive)
*ablъ m (“apple”)
*ablъka f (“apple”)
*ablъko n (“apple”)
*ablъkъ m (“apple”)
*abolnica f (“apple tree”)
*abolnišče n (“apple orchard”)
*abolnъ m (“some tree”)

adjective

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian: (via *abolnica)
  Cyrillic script: Ја̏бланица (toponym)
  
  Latin script: Jȁblanica (toponym)
West Slavic:
- Czech: jablonice (“apple orchard”)
- Polish: Jabłonica (toponyms)
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: jabłońca (“apple tree”)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*ablonica/*abolnica?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 42

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*ablonica/*abolnica?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 42

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