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Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Slavic *badli, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-dʰl-. Possibly, however, formed in Old Church Slavonic or inherited from a form such as Proto-Slavic *bali, cf. the form bali for expected *badli in the Freising Manuscripts.
Noun
бальи • (balĭi) m
- physician
Declension
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References
- Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “бальи”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) , Moscow: Russkij jazyk
- Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “бальи”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae), Prague: Euroslavica
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN