Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tiňa

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *timna

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

*tiňa f

1. slime, mud, scum

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тина (tina), тимѣно (timěno)
    • Russian: ти́на (tína)
    • Ukrainian: ти́на (týna)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: тина (tina)

    • → Romanian: tină
  • Bulgarian: ти́ня (tínja)
  • Macedonian: тиња (tinja)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: tinа

Further reading

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