Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tišina

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 *tixъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*tišina f

1. silence

Declension

Declension of *tišina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tišina	*tišině	*tišiny
genitive	*tišiny	*tišinu	*tišinъ
dative	*tišině	*tišinama	*tišinamъ
accusative	*tišinǫ	*tišině	*tišiny
instrumental	*tišinojǫ, *tišinǫ**	*tišinama	*tišinami
locative	*tišině	*tišinu	*tišinasъ, *tišinaxъ*
vocative	*tišino	*tišině	*tišiny

^* -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: цішыня (cišynja)
  • Russian: тишина́ (tišiná)
  • Ukrainian: тишина́ (tyšyná)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: тишина (tišina)

  • Bulgarian: тишина́ (tišiná)
  • Macedonian: тишина (tišina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тишѝна

    Latin script: tišìna

  • Slovene: tišína (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: ciszyna (rare)
  • Silesian: ciszyna