Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dьliti

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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 *dl̥h₁-yé-ti, from a marginal Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (long) (apparently unrelated to the "split" sense), which is most widely represented via the derived form *dl̥h₁gʰós (long). By surface analysis, *dьlь +‎ *-iti.

Verb

*dьliti impf

  1. to prolong, to delay

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: дли́ть (dlítʹ) (dated)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: продьлѭ (prodĭljǫ)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “длить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dьliti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 210

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dьliti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 133:v. ‘last’