Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dateľь

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 *dati +‎ *-teľь.

Noun

*dateľь m

giver, donor

Inflection

Declension of *dateľь (soft o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dateľь	*dateľa	*dateľi
genitive	*dateľa	*dateľu	*dateľь
dative	*dateľu	*dateľema	*dateľemъ
accusative	*dateľь	*dateľa	*dateľę̇
instrumental	dateľьmь, dateľemь^*	*dateľema	*dateľi
locative	*dateľi	*dateľu	*dateľixъ
vocative	*dateľu	*dateľa	*dateľi

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: да́тель (dátelʹ) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: датель (datelĭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰴⰰⱅⰵⰾⱐ (datelĭ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: дȁтељ
  
  Latin script: dȁtelj
West Slavic:
- Czech: datel

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dateļь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96: “m. jo ‘giver, donor’”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dateļь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96: “m. jo ‘giver, donor’”