Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medovina

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 *medovъ (“made of honey”) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*medovina f

1. honey extract, mead

Inflection

Declension of *medovina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*medovina	*medovině	*medoviny
genitive	*medoviny	*medovinu	*medovinъ
dative	*medovině	*medovinama	*medovinamъ
accusative	*medovinǫ	*medovině	*medoviny
instrumental	*medovinojǫ, *medovinǫ**	*medovinama	*medovinami
locative	*medovině	*medovinu	*medovinasъ, *medovinaxъ*
vocative	*medovino	*medovině	*medoviny

^* -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

• *medъ (“honey”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: медови́на (medovína) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: медовина (medovina)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⰵⰴⱁⰲⰻⱀⰰ (medovina)

  • Bulgarian: медови́на (medovína)
  • Macedonian: медовина (medovina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мѐдовина

    Latin script: mèdovina

  • Slovene: mẹ̑dovina (tonal orthography), medovína
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: medovina
    • Czech: medovina
  • Polish: miodowina (dialectal)
  • Slovak: medovina
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mjodowina
    • Upper Sorbian: mjedowina

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Byzantine Greek: μουδουβίνα (moudoubína)
  • → Greek: μεδοβίνα (medovína)

Further reading

• 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