Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tišina

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 *tixъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*tišina f

silence

Declension

Declension of *tišina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tišina	*tišině	*tišiny
genitive	*tišiny	*tišinu	*tišinъ
dative	*tišině	*tišinama	*tišinamъ
accusative	*tišinǫ	*tišině	*tišiny
instrumental	tišinojǫ, tišinǫ^**	*tišinama	*tišinami
locative	*tišině	*tišinu	tišinasъ, tišinaxъ^*
vocative	*tišino	*tišině	*tišiny

^* -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: цішыня (cišynja)
- Russian: тишина́ (tišiná)
- Ukrainian: тишина́ (tyšyná)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: тишина (tišina)
- Bulgarian: тишина́ (tišiná)
- Macedonian: тишина (tišina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: тишѝна
  
  Latin script: tišìna
- Slovene: tišína (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: tišina
- Polish: ciszyna (rare)
- Silesian: ciszyna
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: ćišina
  - Lower Sorbian: śišyna