Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ědlo

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 *ěd- +‎ *-lo. Per Trubačev (ESSJa), perhaps inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edlóm with potential cognate archaic Latin ellum (“spoonful”).

Noun

*ědlo n

1. meal
2. dish
3. eating
4. food

Declension

Declension of *ědlo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ědlo	*ědlě	*ědla
genitive	*ědla	*ědlu	*ědlъ
dative	*ědlu	*ědloma	*ědlomъ
accusative	*ědlo	*ědlě	*ědla
instrumental	*ědlъmь, *ědlomь*	*ědloma	*ědly
locative	*ědlě	*ědlu	*ědlěxъ
vocative	*ědlo	*ědlě	*ědla

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *ědlovьnikъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: е́ло (jélo)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: я́ло (jálo), е́ло (élo) (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: је̏ло

    Latin script: jȅlo

    • Chakavian (Crikvenica): jȉlo
    • Chakavian (Orlec): jẽlo
    • Chakavian (Stinatz): j'ilo
    • Kajkavian (Varaždin): j'ẹlo
  • Slovene: jélo (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jiedlo
    • Czech: jídlo
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): jidlo
  • Polish: jadło
  • Slovak: jedlo
  • Slovincian: jodlô
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jědło
  • → Old Ruthenian: ѣдло (jědlo), идло (idlo)
    • Ukrainian: ї́дло́ (jídló) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ědlo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 41