Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/malina

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

*malìna

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- +‎ *-ina. Compare Lithuanian mėlynė (“blueberry”), mėlynas (“blue”).

Noun

*malìna f

1. raspberry (fruit and shrub)

Declension

Declension of *malina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*malina	*malině	*maliny
genitive	*maliny	*malinu	*malinъ
dative	*malině	*malinama	*malinamъ
accusative	*malinǫ	*malině	*maliny
instrumental	*malinojǫ, *malinǫ**	*malinama	*malinami
locative	*malině	*malinu	*malinasъ, *malinaxъ*
vocative	*malino	*malině	*maliny

^* -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:
  • Belarusian: малі́на (malína), малы́на (malýna), малэ́нэ (maléne)
  • Russian: мали́на (malína)
  • Ukrainian: мали́на (malýna)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: мали́на (malína)
  • Macedonian: ма́лина (málina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ма̀лина

    Latin script: màlina

  • Slovene: malína (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: malina
    • Czech: malina
  • Kashubian: malëna, malna
  • Polabian: molaină
  • Old Polish: malina
    • Polish: malina
      • → Low Prussian: Malinne
    • Silesian: malina
  • Slovak: malina
  • Slovincian: malëna
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: malena, maleńka
    • Lower Sorbian: malina

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: málna
  • → Romanian: mălină
  • → Yiddish: מאַלינע (maline), מאַלענע (malene)