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Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dělo, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-l-.
Noun
дѣло • (dělo) n
- deed, act
- Luke 24:19-20, from Codex Assemanius, 3241900-3241920:
ꙇ́же бъис꙯ мѫжь пррок꙯ · силенъ дѣломъ и́ словомъ ·- íže bŷis: mǫžĭ prrok: · silenŭ dělomŭ í slovomŭ ·
- He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed.
- work, occupation, activity
- (by metonymy) income
- work, creation
- Ретъко, editor (1025±50?), “дѣломъ”, in Codex Suprasliensis (in Old Church Slavonic), page (leaf) 131.5, line 29:
не сътворите себѣ капищъ · ни поклан҄ѣи҅те сѧ дѣломъ рѫкъ вашихъ · ни и҅нои҆ твари никоѥи҅же ·- ne sŭtvorite sebě kapištŭ · ni poklanʹjhěite sę dělomŭ rǫkŭ vašixŭ · nhi inoi tvari nikojheiže ·
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- thing, matter
- (later Church Slavonic) fruit
Declension
Derived terms
References
- Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “дѣло”, in Старославянский словарь (по рукописям X—XI веков) (overall work in Russian), Moscow: Russkij jazyk
- Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “дѣло”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae) (overall work in Czech), Prague: Euroslavica
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26), Helsinki: University of Helsinki
Russian
Noun
дѣ́ло • (dě́lo) n inan (genitive дѣ́ла, nominative plural дѣла́, genitive plural дѣлъ)
- Pre-1918 spelling of де́ло (délo).
Declension