Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slina

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 *sleʔinaʔ, from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y-n-eh₂. Cognate with Latvian sliẽnas, Proto-Germanic *slīmą, Albanian llënjëz.

Noun

*slìna f[1]

  1. saliva

Declension

Declension of *slìna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *slìna *slìně *slìny
genitive *slìny *slìnu *slìnъ
dative *slìně *slìnama *slìnamъ
accusative *slìnǫ *slìně *slìny
instrumental *slìnojǫ, *slìnǭ** *slìnama *slìnamī
locative *slìně *slìnu *slìnasъ, *slìnaxъ*
vocative *slìno *slìně *slìny

* -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: слі́на (slína)
    • Russian: слюна́ (sljuná)
    • Ukrainian: сли́на (slýna)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: слина (slina)
      Glagolitic script: ⱄⰾⰻⱀⰰ (slina)
    • Bulgarian: слю́нка (sljúnka)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: сли̏на
      Latin script: slȉna
    • Slovene: slína (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*slìna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 453: “f. ā (a) ‘saliva’”
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