Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medovina
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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 *medovъ (“made of honey”) + *-ina.
Noun
*medovina f
Inflection
Declension of *medovina (hard a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *medovina | *medovině | *medoviny |
| genitive | *medoviny | *medovinu | *medovinъ |
| dative | *medovině | *medovinama | *medovinamъ |
| accusative | *medovinǫ | *medovině | *medoviny |
| instrumental | *medovinojǫ, *medovinǫ** | *medovinama | *medovinami |
| locative | *medovině | *medovinu | *medovinasъ, *medovinaxъ* |
| vocative | *medovino | *medovině | *medoviny |
* -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).
Related terms
- *medъ (“honey”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: медови́на (medovína) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Byzantine Greek: μουδουβίνα (moudoubína)
- → Greek: μεδοβίνα (medovína)
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*medovina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 57
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “медовина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 712