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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dalь

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

Compare Latvian tāls (“far, distant”), from a suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *to-, but the initial d remains unexplained.[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

*dalь f

  1. distance

Declension
Declension of *dalь (i-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *dalь *dali *dali
genitive *dali *dalьju, *daľu* *dalьjь, *dali*
dative *dali *dalьma *dalьmъ
accusative *dalь *dali *dali
instrumental *dalьjǫ, *daľǫ* *dalьma *dalьmi
locative *dali *dalьju, *daľu* *dalьxъ
vocative *dali *dali *dali
* 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: даль (dalʹ)
    • Ukrainian: даль (dalʹ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: да̑љ
      Latin script: dȃlj
    • Slovene: dálja (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: dál
    • Polish: dal
    • Slovak: ďalej, ďaleko

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “tāls”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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