Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъduňa

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 Latin cydōnia, from Ancient Greek Κυδωνία (Kudōnía, “quince-tree”).

Noun

*kъduňa f

quince (tree and fruit)

Declension

Declension of *kъduňa (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kъduňa	*kъduňi	*kъduňę̇
genitive	*kъduňę̇	*kъduňu	*kъduňь
dative	*kъduňi	*kъduňama	*kъduňamъ
accusative	*kъduňǫ	*kъduňi	*kъduňę̇
instrumental	kъduňejǫ, kъduňǫ^**	*kъduňama	*kъduňami
locative	*kъduňi	*kъduňu	kъduňasъ, kъduňaxъ^*
vocative	*kъduňe	*kъduňi	*kъduňę̇

^* -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

*dyňa (“melon”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *гъдуля (*gŭdulja)
  - Old Ruthenian: *гъду́ля (*hdúlja)
    - Ukrainian: гду́ля (hdúlja), ду́ля (dúlja)
  - Russian: ду́ля (dúlja)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: дю́ля (djúlja)
- Macedonian: дуња (dunja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: гду̏ња, ду̏ња
  
  Latin: gdȕnja, dȕnja
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kdúle, gdúle
  - Czech: kdoule, gdoule
- Old Polish: gdula, dula
- Old Slovak: gdula, dula
  - Slovak: dula, gduľa (dialectal), bduľa (dialectal)
- Lower Sorbian: dula

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kъdunja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 174
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дуля”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress