Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/solna

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 *śalˀnā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolH-n-eh₂. Cognate with Latvian sal̂na (“light frost”), Latgalian solna (“light frost”), Lithuanian šalnà (“light frost”), Proto-Germanic *hehlǭ.

Noun

*solnà f^[1]^[2]^[3]

hoarfrost

Declension

Declension of *sōlnà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sōlnà	*sõlně	*sōlnỳ
genitive	*sōlnỳ	*sōlnù	*sõlnъ
dative	*sōlně̀	*sōlnàma	*sōlnàmъ
accusative	*sōlnǫ̀	*sõlně	*sōlnỳ
instrumental	sōlnòjǫ, sõlnǫ^**	*sōlnàma	*sōlnàmī
locative	*sōlně̀	*sōlnù	sōlnàsъ, sōlnàxъ^*
vocative	*solno	*sõlně	*sōlnỳ

^* -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

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: слана (slana)
  
  unspecified script:
- Bulgarian: слана́ (slaná)
- Macedonian: слана (slana)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: сла́на
  
  Latin script: slána
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): slå̄nȁ
- Slovene: slána (tonal orthography)

References

^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “slana”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *solna̋”
^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*solnà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “solna solny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b < a? (NA 138)] / [c (PR)] hoarfrost (NA ; PR 138)”

[1] Snoj, Marko (2016) “slana”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *solna̋”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*solnà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460

[3] Olander, Thomas (2001) “solna solny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b < a? (NA 138)] / [c (PR)] hoarfrost (NA ; PR 138)”

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