Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mydlo

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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 *myti (to wash) +‎ *-dlo (instrument suffix).

Noun

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*mỳdlo n[1][2]

  1. soap

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Non-Slavic:
    • Proto-Finnic: *mukla (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мы́ло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mỳdlo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 336:n. o (a) ‘soap’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “mydlo, pl. mydla”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (for †mydlъ) (NA 115; SA 151)