Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lędina

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

*lę̑do (“heath, uncultivated field”) +‎ *-ina

Noun

*lędìna f

1. untilled, barren land

Declension

Declension of *lędina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lędina	*lędině	*lędiny
genitive	*lędiny	*lędinu	*lędinъ
dative	*lędině	*lędinama	*lędinamъ
accusative	*lędinǫ	*lędině	*lędiny
instrumental	*lędinojǫ, *lędinǫ**	*lędinama	*lędinami
locative	*lędině	*lędinu	*lędinasъ, *lędinaxъ*
vocative	*lędino	*lędině	*lędiny

^* -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).

Derived terms

• *lędinъka (diminutive)
• *lędinьje (in toponyms)
• *lędinьcь, *lędiňakъ (“wild plant, weed”)
• *lędinovъ (“arid, heathy”)

Related terms

• *lędixa (“meadow”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лѧдина (lędina)
    • Russian: ля́ди́на (ljádína) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: ля́дина (ljádyna, “grove, meadow”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: лѧдина (lędina)
  • Bulgarian: ле́ди́на (lédína), ля́дина (ljádina) (dialectal), ле́нди́на (léndína) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: ледина (ledina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: лѐдина

    Latin script: lèdina

  • Slovene: ledína (tonal orthography)
  • → Albanian: lëndinë, ledinë (borrowed from South Slavic)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lędina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 41
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “ледина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 345