Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/olnita
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly akin to Latin ulna (“forearm bone”), Proto-Germanic *alinō (“ell”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”)?
Noun
[edit]*olnìta f
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *olnìta (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *olnìta | *olnitě | *olnity |
genitive | *olnity | *olnitu | *olnitъ |
dative | *olnitě | *olnitama | *olnitamъ |
accusative | *olnitǫ | *olnitě | *olnity |
instrumental | *olnitojǫ, *olnitǫ** | *olnitama | *olnitami |
locative | *olnitě | *olnitu | *olnitasъ, *olnitaxъ* |
vocative | *olnìto | *olnitě | *olnity |
* -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).
** 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).
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: lanitva
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ланита”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
[edit]- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*olnìta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 369