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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glina

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁i-n-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gléinė (“moist clay”). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek γλία (glía, “loam”), γλίνη (glínē, “loam”).

Noun

*glìna f [1][2]

  1. clay

Declension
Declension of *glìna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a, uncountable)
Singular
Nominative *glìna
Accusative *glìnǫ
Genitive *glìny
Locative *glìně
Dative *glìně
Instrumental *glìnojǫ, *glìnǭ**
Vocative *glìno
* -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).

Descendants

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*glìna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 164: “f. ā (a) ‘clay’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “glina gliny”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 75, 137, 155, 187; PR 132; RPT 107, 111)”
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