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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mydlo

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 *myti (“to wash”) +‎ *-dlo (instrument suffix).

Noun

*mỳdlo n[1][2]

  1. soap

Declension
Declension of *mỳdlo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *mỳdlo *mỳdlě *mỳdla
genitive *mỳdla *mỳdlu *mỳdlъ
dative *mỳdlu *mỳdloma *mỳdlomъ
accusative *mỳdlo *mỳdlě *mỳdla
instrumental *mỳdlъmь, *mỳdlomь* *mỳdloma *mỳdlȳ
locative *mỳdlě *mỳdlu *mỳdlě̄xъ
vocative *mỳdlo *mỳdlě *mỳdla
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мꙑ́ло (mýlo)
    • Old Novgorodian: мꙑ́гло (mýglo)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: мꙑло (mylo)
      Glagolitic: ⰿⱏⰻⰾⱁ (mylo)
    • Bulgarian: ми́ло (mílo) (dated, biblical)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ми̏ло (dated)
      Latin: mȉlo (dated)
    • Slovene: mílo (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
  • Non-Slavic:
    • → Proto-Finnic: *mukla (see there for further descendants)

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мы́ло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mỳdlo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 336: “n. o (a) ‘soap’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “mydlo, pl. mydla”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (for †mydlъ) (NA 115; SA 151)”
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