Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/družina
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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 *drugъ (“companion, friend”) + *-ina (“collective suffix”).
Noun
*družìna f[1]
Inflection
Declension of *družìna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *družìna | *družìně | *družìny |
| genitive | *družìny | *družìnu | *družìnъ |
| dative | *družìně | *družìnama | *družìnamъ |
| accusative | *družìnǫ | *družìně | *družìny |
| instrumental | *družìnojǫ, *družìnǭ** | *družìnama | *družìnamī |
| locative | *družìně | *družìnu | *družìnasъ, *družìnaxъ* |
| vocative | *družìno | *družìně | *družìny |
* -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:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дружина”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “дружина”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 271
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*družina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 134
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*družìna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122: “f. ā (a)”