Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dobrina

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

(deprecated template usage)

From *dobrъ (“good”) +‎ *-ina. In South Slavic, the term has merged with the name of the proto-Slavic deity of Virtue *dobryni (“excellence”).

Noun

*dobrina f

1. goodness, benevolence
2. good deed

Declension

Declension of *dobrina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dobrina	*dobrině	*dobriny
genitive	*dobriny	*dobrinu	*dobrinъ
dative	*dobrině	*dobrinama	*dobrinamъ
accusative	*dobrinǫ	*dobrině	*dobriny
instrumental	*dobrinojǫ, *dobrinǫ**	*dobrinama	*dobrinami
locative	*dobrině	*dobrinu	*dobrinasъ, *dobrinaxъ*
vocative	*dobrino	*dobrině	*dobriny

^* -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:
  • Russian: добрина́ (dobriná)
  • Ukrainian: добрина́ (dobryná)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: добрина (dobrina)
  • Bulgarian: добрина (dobrina)
  • Macedonian: добрина (dobrina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: добрѝна

    Latin script: dobrìna

  • Slovene: dobrína

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dobřina

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dobrina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 05 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 41