Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/soltina

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

A derivative of *sȏlь (“salt”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

*soltina f

1. saltmarsh

Declension

Declension of *soltina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*soltina	*soltině	*soltiny
genitive	*soltiny	*soltinu	*soltinъ
dative	*soltině	*soltinama	*soltinamъ
accusative	*soltinǫ	*soltině	*soltiny
instrumental	*soltinojǫ, *soltinǫ**	*soltinama	*soltinami
locative	*soltině	*soltinu	*soltinasъ, *soltinaxъ*
vocative	*soltino	*soltině	*soltiny

^* -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:
  • Russian: солоти́на (solotína) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: слатина (slatina)
  • Bulgarian: Слатина (Slatina) (toponym)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сла̏тина

    Latin script: slȁtina

  • Slovene: slatina
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: slatina
  • Slovak: slatina

• Non-Slavic:
  • Romanian: slatină

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*soltina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 461