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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sila
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *séiˀlāˀ.
Declension
Declension of *sìla (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *sìla | *sìlě | *sìly |
genitive | *sìly | *sìlu | *sìlъ |
dative | *sìlě | *sìlama | *sìlamъ |
accusative | *sìlǫ | *sìlě | *sìly |
instrumental | *sìlojǫ, *sìlǭ** | *sìlama | *sìlamī |
locative | *sìlě | *sìlu | *sìlasъ, *sìlaxъ* |
vocative | *sìlo | *sìlě | *sìly |
* -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).
** 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).
Derived terms
- *silьnъ (“strong”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “си́ла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sìla”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 451: “f. ā (a) ‘strength, force’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001) “sila sily”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 22, 72; PR 132; MP 15f.; RPT 107, 111)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016) “síla”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *si̋la”
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