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.

*solna

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

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

Noun

*solnà f

1. 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)

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “šalna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN