Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/elenina

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 *ely +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*elenina f

  1. venison, deer meat

Declension

Declension of *elenina (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *elenina *elenině *eleniny
genitive *eleniny *eleninu *eleninъ
dative *elenině *eleninama *eleninamъ
accusative *eleninǫ *elenině *eleniny
instrumental *eleninojǫ, *eleninǫ** *eleninama *eleninami
locative *elenině *eleninu *eleninasъ, *eleninaxъ*
vocative *elenino *elenině *eleniny

* -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:
    • Old East Slavic: *оленина (*olenina)
    • Old Novgorodian: оленина (olenina)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      • → Russian: еле́нина (jelénina) (archaic)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: јѐленина (archaic)
      Latin script: jèlenina (archaic)
    • Slovene: jelenína (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1991), “elenina”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 6 (e! – ěždžь), Wrocław: Ossolineum, →ISBN, page 43
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*elenina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 19
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