Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glina

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *gléiˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gléinė (“moist clay”). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek γλία (glía, “loam”), γλίνη (glínē, “loam”).[1]

Noun

*glìna f[1][2]

  1. clay

Declension

Declension of *glìna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a, uncountable)
singular
nominative *glìna
genitive *glìny
dative *glìně
accusative *glìnǫ
instrumental *glìnojǫ, *glìnǭ**
locative *glìně
vocative *glìno

* -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:
    • Old East Slavic: глина (glina)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глина”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*glìna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 164: “f. ā (a) ‘clay’”
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “glina gliny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 75, 137, 155, 187; PR 132; RPT 107, 111)”
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