Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dělъ

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 *dailas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Lithuanian dailýti (“to divide”), Proto-Germanic *dailą, *dailiz.

Noun

*dě̃lъ m

1. part

Inflection

Declension of *dě̃lъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dě̃lъ	*dě̄là	*dě̄lì
genitive	*dě̄là	*dě̄lù	*dě̃lъ
dative	*dě̄lù	*dě̄lòma	*dě̄lòmъ
accusative	*dě̃lъ	*dě̄là	*dě̄lỳ
instrumental	*dě̄lъ̀mь, *dě̄lòmь*	*dě̄lòma	*dě̃ly
locative	*dě̄lě̀	*dě̄lù	*dě̃lěxъ
vocative	*děle	*dě̄là	*dě̄lì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *děliti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: дел (del) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: діл (dil)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: дѣлъ (dělŭ) (Russian)
  • Bulgarian: дял (djal)
  • Macedonian: дел (del)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: део, дио

    Latin script: deo, dio

    • Chakavian (Novi): dél
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): dⁱȇl
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): dĩl
  • Slovene: dẹ̄l, dẹ̄ł (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: diel
    • Czech: díl
      • Moravian (Mistřice): ďíu̯
  • Kashubian: dzél
  • Polish: dział
  • Slovak: diel
  • Slovincian: dzél

Further reading

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