Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dupina

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 *dupa +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*dupina f

hole

Inflection

Declension of *dupina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dupina	*dupině	*dupiny
genitive	*dupiny	*dupinu	*dupinъ
dative	*dupině	*dupinama	*dupinamъ
accusative	*dupinǫ	*dupině	*dupiny
instrumental	dupinojǫ, dupinǫ^**	*dupinama	*dupinami
locative	*dupině	*dupinu	dupinasъ, dupinaxъ^*
vocative	*dupino	*dupině	*dupiny

^* -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).

Related terms

*dupiti
*duplo
*dupьnъ

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: дупина (dupina, “hole, grove, ditch”)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: доупина (dupina, “opening”)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰴⱆⱂⰻⱀⰰ (dupina)
- Serbo-Croatian: duplja (“cavity in a tree trunk”)
- Slovene: dupína (“hole, hollow, cavity”)
West Slavic:
- Polish: dupina

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dupina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 125

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