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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/edlъka

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
*edlъka (Picea abies)

Etymology

From *ȅdlь (“spruce, fir”) +‎ *-ьka (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

*ȅdlъka f

  1. spruce, fir

Inflection
Declension of *ȅdlъka (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *ȅdlъka *edlъcě *edlъky
genitive *edlъky *edlъku *edlъkъ
dative *edlъcě *edlъkama *edlъkamъ
accusative *edlъkǫ *edlъcě *edlъky
instrumental *edlъkojǫ, *edlъkǫ** *edlъkama *edlъkami
locative *edlъcě *edlъku *edlъkasъ, *edlъkaxъ*
vocative *ȅdlъko *edlъcě *edlъky
* -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: éлъка (élŭka)
      • Old Ruthenian: є́лка (jélka)
        • Belarusian: ёлка (jólka); е́лка (jélka), я́лка (jálka) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: я́лка (jálka), є́лка (jélka) (dialectal)
          • ⇒ Ukrainian: є́вка (jévka), ївка (jivka), и́вка (ývka, “horsetail”) (dialectal)
      • Middle Russian: éлка (élka)
        • Russian: ёлка (jólka); éлка (élka), іо́лка (iólka) (obsolete)
  • South Slavic:
    • Macedonian: елка (elka)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: је̑лка
      Latin script: jȇlka
    • Slovene: ję̑lka, jelka
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Anikin, A. E. (2021) “ёлка”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 15 (друг – еренга), Moscow: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 318
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  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “яли́на”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 543
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