Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dupina

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 *dupa +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*dupina f

1. hole

Inflection

Declension of *dupina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dupina	*dupině	*dupiny
genitive	*dupiny	*dupinu	*dupinъ
dative	*dupině	*dupinama	*dupinamъ
accusative	*dupinǫ	*dupině	*dupiny
instrumental	*dupinojǫ, *dupinǫ**	*dupinama	*dupinami
locative	*dupině	*dupinu	*dupinasъ, *dupinaxъ*
vocative	*dupino	*dupině	*dupiny

^* -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).

Related terms

• *dupiti
• *duplo
• *dupьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дупина (dupina, “hole, grove, ditch”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: доупина (dupina, “opening”)

    Glagolitic script: ⰴⱆⱂⰻⱀⰰ (dupina)

  • Serbo-Croatian: duplja (“cavity in a tree trunk”)
  • Slovene: dupína (“hole, hollow, cavity”)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: dupina

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dupina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 125