Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/načędlo

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 *načęti +‎ *-dlo.

Noun

*načędlo n

1. beginning, start
2. source, origin
3. principle

Declension

Declension of *načędlo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*načędlo	*načędlě	*načędla
genitive	*načędla	*načędlu	*načędlъ
dative	*načędlu	*načędloma	*načędlomъ
accusative	*načędlo	*načędlě	*načędla
instrumental	*načędlъmь, *načędlomь*	*načędloma	*načędly
locative	*načędlě	*načędlu	*načędlěxъ
vocative	*načędlo	*načędlě	*načędla

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

Derived terms

• *načędlьnъ
• *načędlьnikъ

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: начѧло (načęlo)

    Glagolitic script: ⱀⰰⱍⱔⰾⱁ (načęlo)

    • → Old East Slavic: начало (načalo)
      • → Old Ruthenian: нача́ло (načálo)
        • → Ukrainian: нача́ло (načálo)
      • → Russian: нача́ло (načálo)
        • → Bulgarian: начало (načalo), начело (načelo)
  • Macedonian: начело (načelo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: наче́ло

    Latin script: načélo

  • Slovene: načélo (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*načędlo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 21 (*mъrskovatъjь – *nadějьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 225