Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dętelina

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 *dętelъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*dętelina f

1. clover

Declension

Declension of *dętelina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dętelina	*dętelině	*dęteliny
genitive	*dęteliny	*dętelinu	*dętelinъ
dative	*dętelině	*dętelinama	*dętelinamъ
accusative	*dętelinǫ	*dętelině	*dęteliny
instrumental	*dętelinojǫ, *dętelinǫ**	*dętelinama	*dętelinami
locative	*dętelině	*dętelinu	*dętelinasъ, *dętelinaxъ*
vocative	*dętelino	*dętelině	*dęteliny

^* -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).

Alternative forms

• *dětelina (Serbian)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: дзятліна (dzjatlina), дзяцеліна (dzjacjelina) (dialectal)
  • Russian: дя́тлина (djátlina)
  • Ukrainian: дятли́на (djatlýna) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: детели́на (detelína)
  • Macedonian: детелина (detelina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: де̏телина, дје̏телина

    Latin script: dȅtelina, djȅtelina

  • Slovene: d'ę́telja (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jetelina
  • Polish: dzięcielina
  • Slovak: ďatelina

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дя́тлина”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress