Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/malina

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-Indo-European *melh₂- +‎ *-ina. Compare Lithuanian mėlynė (blueberry), mėlynas (blue).

Noun

*malìna f[1][2]

  1. raspberry (fruit and shrub)

Declension

Declension of *malina (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *malina *malině *maliny
genitive *maliny *malinu *malinъ
dative *malině *malinama *malinamъ
accusative *malinǫ *malině *maliny
instrumental *malinojǫ, *malinǫ** *malinama *malinami
locative *malině *malinu *malinasъ, *malinaxъ*
vocative *malino *malině *maliny

* -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:
    • Belarusian: малі́на (malína), малы́на (malýna), малэ́нэ (maléne)
    • Russian: мали́на (malína)
    • Ukrainian: мали́на (malýna)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
  • Non-Slavic:
    • Hungarian: málna
    • Romanian: mălină
    • Yiddish: מאַלינע (maline), מאַלענע (malene)

References

  1. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “malína”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *mali̋na
  2. ^ Dybo, Vladimir A. (2000) Морфонологизованные парадигматические акцентные системы: Типология и генезис [Morphophonologized paradigmatic accent systems: Typology and genesis]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 85:II. Суфф. -i̋n-ā: 1. *mali̋naII. Suff. -i̋n-ā: 1. *mali̋na