Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/boršьna
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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 *boršьno (“flour”) + *-a.
Noun
Inflection
Declension of *boršьna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *boršьna | *boršьně | *boršьny |
| genitive | *boršьny | *boršьnu | *boršьnъ |
| dative | *boršьně | *boršьnama | *boršьnamъ |
| accusative | *boršьnǫ | *boršьně | *boršьny |
| instrumental | *boršьnojǫ, *boršьnǭ** | *boršьnama | *boršьnamī |
| locative | *boršьně | *boršьnu | *boršьnasъ, *boršьnaxъ* |
| vocative | *boršьno | *boršьně | *boršьny |
* -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).
** 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).
References
- ^ Anikin, A. E. (2011) “бо́рошна”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 4 (боле – бтарь), Moscow: Znak, →ISBN, page 93: “прасл. *boršьna/*boršьn’a ― prasl. *boršʹna/*boršʹn’a”
- ^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “boršьna : boršьn'a”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 330