Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dolina

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 *dolъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*dolina f

1. valley

Declension

Declension of *dolina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dolina	*dolině	*doliny
genitive	*doliny	*dolinu	*dolinъ
dative	*dolině	*dolinama	*dolinamъ
accusative	*dolinǫ	*dolině	*doliny
instrumental	*dolinojǫ, *dolinǫ**	*dolinama	*dolinami
locative	*dolině	*dolinu	*dolinasъ, *dolinaxъ*
vocative	*dolino	*dolině	*doliny

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic: долина (dolina)
    • Belarusian: далі́на (dalína)
    • Russian: доли́на (dolína)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: доли́на (dolýna)
    • Ukrainian: доли́на (dolýna)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: доли́на (dolína)
  • Macedonian: долина (dolina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: долѝна

    Latin script: dolìna

  • Slovene: dolína (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dolina
  • Kashubian: dolëna, dolëzna
  • Polish: dolina
  • Slovak: dolina
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: dolina
    • Lower Sorbian: dolina

• Non-Slavic
  • → Romanian: dolină

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dolina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 61