Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/malina
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- + *-ina. Compare Lithuanian mėlynė (“blueberry”), Lithuanian mėlynas (“blue”).
Noun
- raspberry (fruit and shrub)
Declension
Declension of *malina (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *malina | *malině | *maliny |
genitive | *maliny | *malinu | *malinъ |
dative | *malině | *malinama | *malinamъ |
accusative | *malinǫ | *malině | *maliny |
instrumental | *malinojǫ, *malinǫ** | *malinama | *malinami |
locative | *malině | *malinu | *malinasъ, *malinaxъ* |
vocative | *malino | *malině | *maliny |
* -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).
** 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:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “malína”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *mali̋na”
- ^ Dybo, Vladimir A. (2000) Морфонологизованные парадигматические акцентные системы: Типология и генезис[1] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 85: “II. Суфф. -i̋n-ā: 1. *mali̋na:... ― II. Suff. -i̋n-ā: 1. *mali̋na:...”