Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pustyni

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

*pustъ +‎ *-yni

Noun

*pustyni f

1. desert, wilderness, wasteland

Declension

Declension of *pustyni (ī-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pustyni	*pustyňi	*pustyňę̇
genitive	*pustyňę̇	*pustyňu	*pustyňь
dative	*pustyňi	*pustyňama	*pustyňamъ
accusative	*pustyňǫ	*pustyňi	*pustyňę̇
instrumental	*pustyňejǫ, *pustyňǫ**	*pustyňama	*pustyňami
locative	*pustyňi	*pustyňu	*pustyňasъ, *pustyňaxъ*
vocative	*pustyňe	*pustyňi	*pustyňę̇

^* -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: пусты́ня (pustýnja)
  • Russian: пу́стынь (pústynʹ), пусты́ня (pustýnja)
  • Ukrainian: пусти́ня (pustýnja) (see also: пусте́ля (pustélja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: поустꙑни (pustyni)

  • Bulgarian: пустиня (pustinja)
  • Macedonian: пустина (pustina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу́стиња

    Latin script: pústinja

  • Slovene: pustínja (tonal orthography); see also: puščȃva (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pustina, (see also: poušť)
  • Polish: pustynia
  • Slovak: pustina, (see also: púšť)

• Other:
  • Romanian: pustiu
  • Friulian: pustot

Further reading

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