Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slina

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *sleʔinaʔ, from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y-n-eh₂. Cognate with Latvian sliẽnas, Proto-Germanic *slīmą, Albanian llënjëz.

Noun

*slìna f

1. saliva

Declension

Declension of *slìna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*slìna	*slìně	*slìny
genitive	*slìny	*slìnu	*slìnъ
dative	*slìně	*slìnama	*slìnamъ
accusative	*slìnǫ	*slìně	*slìny
instrumental	*slìnojǫ, *slìnǭ**	*slìnama	*slìnamī
locative	*slìně	*slìnu	*slìnasъ, *slìnaxъ*
vocative	*slìno	*slìně	*slìny

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: слі́на (slína)
  • Russian: слюна́ (sljuná)
  • Ukrainian: сли́на (slýna)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: слина (slina)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰾⰻⱀⰰ (slina)

  • Bulgarian: слю́нка (sljúnka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сли̏на

    Latin script: slȉna

  • Slovene: slína (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: slina
    • Czech: slina
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): slina
  • Polabian: slaină
  • Old Polish: ślina
    • Polish: ślina
  • Slovak: slina
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: slina
    • Lower Sorbian: slina

Further reading

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