Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/boltina

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 *bolto (“swamp”) +‎ *-ina (denotes locations endowed with characteristics typical for a more particular phenomenon).

Noun

*boltina f

1. marsh, swampland

Declension

Declension of *boltina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*boltina	*boltině	*boltiny
genitive	*boltiny	*boltinu	*boltinъ
dative	*boltině	*boltinama	*boltinamъ
accusative	*boltinǫ	*boltině	*boltiny
instrumental	*boltinojǫ, *boltinǫ**	*boltinama	*boltinami
locative	*boltině	*boltinu	*boltinasъ, *boltinaxъ*
vocative	*boltino	*boltině	*boltiny

^* -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:
  • Russian: боло́тина (bolótina), болоти́на (bolotína)
  • Ukrainian: болоти́на (bolotýna)
• South Slavic:
  • Middle Bulgarian: блатина (blatina), балътина (balŭtina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бла̀тина

    Latin script: blàtina

  • Slovene: blatina
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: blatina
    • Czech: blatina
  • Kashubian: błocëna
  • Old Polish: błocina
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: błóćina

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*boltina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 179