Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/debelina

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

By surface analysis, *debelъ (“fat”) +‎ *-ina (“collective suffix”).

Noun

*debelina f

1. fatness, thickness

Inflection

Declension of *debelina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*debelina	*debelině	*debeliny
genitive	*debeliny	*debelinu	*debelinъ
dative	*debelině	*debelinama	*debelinamъ
accusative	*debelinǫ	*debelině	*debeliny
instrumental	*debelinojǫ, *debelinǫ**	*debelinama	*debelinami
locative	*debelině	*debelinu	*debelinasъ, *debelinaxъ*
vocative	*debelino	*debelině	*debeliny

^* -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:
  • Ukrainian: дебелина́ (debelyná)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: дебелина̀ (debelinà)
  • Macedonian: дебелина (debelina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дебелѝна

    Latin script: debelìna

  • Slovene: debelína (tonal orthography)