Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/telę

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *tel- + *-ę (diminutive suffix), cognate with Latvian teļš, telēns, Lithuanian tẽlias. Three types of hypotheses exist for the origin of the root:

Native origin: Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear”), akin to Latin tollo (“to carry”), possibly Proto-Slavic *telěga (“cart”) (supported by Snoj). Machek tentatively proposes as an alternative ad hoc simiplificaiton of (formally incompatible) Proto-Indo-European *wetélas (“yearling”) cognate with Latin vitulus (“calf”), Ancient Greek ἔταλον (étalon, “yearling”) and akin to Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether, year-old lamb”).
Temematic origin: Per Holzer, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle”) via a hypothetical Indo-European dialect which devoiced aspirated stops. If right, then akin to directly inherited Proto-Slavic *dětę (“child”) and further Latin filius (“son”), Albanian dele (“ewe”). Disputed by Matasović.
Turkic loanword: From Proto-Turkic *tẹ̄l (“calf”), attested in Kazakh тел (tel), Yakut тиил (tiil) (supported by Matasović).

Noun

*telę̀ n[1][2][3]

calf (young bovine)

Declension

Declension of *telę̀ (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*telę̀	*telę̀ti	*telę̀tā
genitive	*telę̀te	*telę̀tu	*telę̀tъ
dative	*telę̀ti	*telę̀tьma	*telę̀tьmъ
accusative	*telę̀	*telę̀ti	*telę̀tā
instrumental	*telę̀tьmь	*telę̀tьma	*telę̀tȳ
locative	*telę̀te	*telę̀tu	*telę̀tьxъ
vocative	*telę̀	*telę̀ti	*telę̀tā

Derived terms

*telenьce, *telenъkъ (diminutive)

Related terms

*telьcь (“calf of taurus”)
*telica (“cow with a (recently born) youngling”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: телѧ (telę)
  - Old Ruthenian: телѧ (telja)
    - Old Belarusian: целѧ (celja)
      - Belarusian: цяля́ (cjaljá)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: теля́ (teljá)
    - Ukrainian: теля́ (teljá)
  - Russian: теля́ (teljá) (regional)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: телѧ (telę)
- Bulgarian: теле́ (telé)
- Macedonian: теле (tele)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: тѐле
  
  Latin script: tèle
- Slovene: téle (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: tele
  - Moravian (Mistřice): tela
- Polish: cielę
- Polabian: tilą
- Silesian: cielã
- Slovak: teľa
- Slovincian: cêlã
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: ćelo
  - Lower Sorbian: śele

References

Olander, Thomas (2001) “telę telęte”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 143)”
Snoj, Marko (2016) “tele”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *telę̋, rod. *telę̋te”
Matasović, Ranko (2013) “Substratum words in Balto-Slavic”, in Filologija, volume 60, Zagreb, published 2014, page 80 of 75–102

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[1] Olander, Thomas (2001) “telę telęte”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 143)”

[2] Snoj, Marko (2016) “tele”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *telę̋, rod. *telę̋te”

[3] Matasović, Ranko (2013) “Substratum words in Balto-Slavic”, in Filologija, volume 60, Zagreb, published 2014, page 80 of 75–102