Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děľa

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

Connected with *dělo. Possibly influenced by *dьliti. Baltic cognates include Latvian dēļ, Lithuanian dė̃l (both possibly borrowings from Slavic).

Preposition

*děľa

1. because of

Alternative forms

• *děľьma
• *dьľa

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дѣлꙗ (dělja)
    • Belarusian: дзеле (dzjelje)
    • Russian: для (dlja)
    • Ukrainian: ді́ля (dílja) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: дѣлꙗ (dělja)

    Glagolitic script: ⰄⰡⰎⰋⰀ (DĚLIA)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дијел (archaic)

    Latin script: dijel

  • Slovene: delj
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dle
  • Old Polish: dziela
    • Polish: dla

Further reading

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