Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bělina

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 *bělъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*bělina f

whiteness

Declension

Declension of *bělina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bělina	*bělině	*běliny
genitive	*běliny	*bělinu	*bělinъ
dative	*bělině	*bělinama	*bělinamъ
accusative	*bělinǫ	*bělině	*běliny
instrumental	bělinojǫ, bělinǫ^**	*bělinama	*bělinami
locative	*bělině	*bělinu	bělinasъ, bělinaxъ^*
vocative	*bělino	*bělině	*běliny

^* -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:
- Russian: бели́на (belína) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: белина́ (beliná)
- Macedonian: белина (belina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: белѝна
  
  Latin script: belìna
  - Chakavian (Orbanići): belĩna (“species of grapes”)
  - Kajkavian (Ozalj): belína
  - Kajkavian (Varaždin): bȩl'ina
- Slovene: belína
  - (Zadrečka dolina): bẹ'li̧na
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: bělina
  - Czech: bělina

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bělina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 66