Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/soltina

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

A derivative of *sȏlь (“salt”).

Noun

*soltina f

saltmarsh

Declension

Declension of *soltina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*soltina	*soltině	*soltiny
genitive	*soltiny	*soltinu	*soltinъ
dative	*soltině	*soltinama	*soltinamъ
accusative	*soltinǫ	*soltině	*soltiny
instrumental	soltinojǫ, soltinǫ^**	*soltinama	*soltinami
locative	*soltině	*soltinu	soltinasъ, soltinaxъ^*
vocative	*soltino	*soltině	*soltiny

^* -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

East Slavic:
- Russian: солоти́на (solotína) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: слатина (slatina)
- Bulgarian: Слатина (Slatina) (toponym)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: сла̏тина
  
  Latin script: slȁtina
- Slovene: slatina
West Slavic:
- Czech: slatina
- Slovak: slatina

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*soltina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 461

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