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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medovina

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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

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Etymology

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From *medovъ (made of honey) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

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*medovina f

  1. honey extract, mead

Inflection

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*medovina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 57
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “медовина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 712