Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/olnita

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

Possibly akin to Latin ulna (“forearm bone”), Proto-Germanic *alinō (“ell”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”)?

Noun

*olnìta f

cheek

Inflection

Declension of *olnìta (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*olnìta	*olnitě	*olnity
genitive	*olnity	*olnitu	*olnitъ
dative	*olnitě	*olnitama	*olnitamъ
accusative	*olnitǫ	*olnitě	*olnity
instrumental	olnitojǫ, olnitǫ^**	*olnitama	*olnitami
locative	*olnitě	*olnitu	olnitasъ, olnitaxъ^*
vocative	*olnìto	*olnitě	*olnity

^* -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

*olkъ, *olkъtь (“elbow”)

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic script: ⰾⰰⱀⰻⱅⰰ (lanita)
  
  Old Cyrillic script: ланита (lanita)
  - Bulgarian: лани́та (laníta)
  - → Old East Slavic: ланита (lanita)
    - Old Ruthenian: лани́та (laníta)
      - Ukrainian: лани́та (lanýta) (archaic); → лані́та (laníta) (learned) (archaic)
    - Russian: лани́та (laníta) (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ла̀нита (dialectal)
  
  Latin script: lànita (dialectal)
- Slovene: laníta (archaic)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: lanitva

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*olnìta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369