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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tělo

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

Unclear. Sayenko links this word with *tьlěti (“to decay; to smolder”).[1] Vasmer lists some other explanations (which he finds unsatisfactory).

Reconstruction notes

The dialectal Russian form тель (telʹ, “body”) is feminized and translated into another type of declension.

Noun

*tě̑lo n[2]

  1. body

Declension
Declension of *tě̑lo (s-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *tě̑lo *tě̑lesi *tělesà
genitive *tě̑lese *tělesù *tělèsъ
dative *tě̑lesi *tělesьmà *tělèsьmъ
accusative *tě̑lo *tě̑lesi *tělesà
instrumental *tě̑lesьmь *tělesьmà *tělesý
locative *tě̑lese *tělesù *tělèsьxъ
vocative *tě̑lo *tě̑lesi *tělesà

Descendants

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тело”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тело”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 234
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “тѣло”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1091

References
  1. Sayenko, Mikhail N. (2022) Очерки по славянской соматической лексике [Essays on Slavic somatic vocabulary]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Indrik, →DOI, →ISBN, page 25‒37
  2. Kapović, Mate (2015) Povijest hrvatske akcentuacije. Fonetika [History of Croatian Accent. Phonetics]‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, →ISBN, page 241: “*tě̑lo”
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