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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/edlь

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *edlis, considered by Pokorny to be from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edʰ- (“sharp, pointy”);[1] however, this is rejected by Genaust.[2] It could instead be a borrowing from a European substrate.[3]

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian ẽglė, Latvian egle, Old Prussian addle.

Noun

*ȅdlь f[4]

  1. spruce, fir

Inflection
Declension of *ȅdlь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *ȅdlь *ȅdli *ȅdli
genitive *edlí *edlьjù, *edľu* *edlь̀jь
dative *ȅdli *edlьmà *ȅdlьmъ
accusative *ȅdlь *ȅdli *ȅdli
instrumental *edlьjǫ́ *edlьmà *edlьmì
locative *edlí *edlьjù, *edľu* *ȅdlьxъ
vocative *edli *ȅdli *ȅdli
* 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).

Alternative forms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: ель (elĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: єль (jelʹ)
        • Ukrainian: яль (jalʹ), єль (jelʹ), їль (jilʹ), іль (ilʹ), иль (ylʹ) (dialectal)
      • Russian: ель (jelʹ)
    • Old Novgorodian: егль (eglĭ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ель”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*edla”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 14
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*edlь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 15

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “*edh-lo-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 289
  2. Genaust, Helmut (1996) “ébulus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 220b–221a
  3. Oettinger, Norbert (2003) “Neuerungen in Lexikon und Wortbildung des Nordwest-Indogermanischen”, in Alfred Bammesberger & Theo Vennemann, editors, Languages in Prehistoric Europe, Heidelberg: Winter, →ISBN, page 189
  4. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ȇdlъ; *edlà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 139
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