Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glina

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *gléiˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gléinė (“moist clay”). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek γλία (glía, “loam”), γλίνη (glínē, “loam”).

Noun

*glìna f^[1]^[2]

clay

Declension

Declension of *glìna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a, uncountable)

	singular
nominative	*glìna
genitive	*glìny
dative	*glìně
accusative	*glìnǫ
instrumental	glìnojǫ, glìnǭ^**
locative	*glìně
vocative	*glìno

^* -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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: глина (glina)
  - Old Ruthenian: глина (hlina)
    - Belarusian: глі́на (hlína)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: глина (hlyna)
    - Ukrainian: гли́на (hlýna)
  - Russian: гли́на (glína)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: гли́на (glína)
- Macedonian: гли́на (glína)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: гли́на
  
  Latin script: glína
- Slovene: glína (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hlína
  - Czech: hlína
    - Moravian (Mistřice): hlina
- Kashubian: glëna
- Polabian: glaino
- Polish: glina
- Slovak: hlina
- Slovincian: glëna
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: glina
  - Upper Sorbian: hlina

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*glìna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 164: “f. ā (a) ‘clay’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “glina gliny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 75, 137, 155, 187; PR 132; RPT 107, 111)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*glìna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 164: “f. ā (a) ‘clay’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “glina gliny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 75, 137, 155, 187; PR 132; RPT 107, 111)”

[1]

[2]