Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/edlь

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *edli-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian ẽglė, Latvian egle, Old Prussian addle.

Noun

*ȅdlь f

1. spruce, fir

Inflection

Declension of *ȅdlь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ȅdlь	*ȅdli	*ȅdli
genitive	*edlí	*edlьjù, *edľu*	*edlь̀jь
dative	*ȅdli	*edlьmà	*ȅdlьmъ
accusative	*ȅdlь	*ȅdli	*ȅdli
instrumental	*edlьjǫ́	*edlьmà	*edlьmì
locative	*edlí	*edlьjù, *edľu*	*ȅdlьxъ
vocative	*edli	*ȅdli	*ȅdli

^* 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).

Alternative forms

• *edlà

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ель (elĭ)
    • Belarusian: ёлка (jólka)
    • Russian: ель (jelʹ), gen. е́ли (jéli); ёлка (jólka)
    • Ukrainian: єль (jelʹ), їль (jilʹ), яль (jalʹ)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ѥла (jela)
  • Bulgarian: ела́ (elá)
  • Macedonian: ела (ela)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: је́ла, је̏ла

    Latin: jéla, jȅla

    • Chakavian : jȅla (“tree trunk”)
  • Slovene: jẹ̑l, jẹ̑la, jẹ́lka (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jedl
    • Czech: jedle
  • Polabian: jadlă
  • Old Polish: jedl, jedla
    • Polish: jodła, jedla; jedła (archaic or dialectal)
  • Slovak: jedľa
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jědla
      • → Lower Sorbian: jedła

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ель”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*edla”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 06 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 14
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*edlь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 06 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 15