Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mydlo

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 edit

Etymology edit

From *myti (“to wash”) +‎ *-dlo (instrument suffix).

Noun edit

*mỳdlo n^[1]^[2]

soap

Declension edit

Declension of *mỳdlo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mỳdlo	*mỳdlě	*mỳdla
genitive	*mỳdla	*mỳdlu	*mỳdlъ
dative	*mỳdlu	*mỳdloma	*mỳdlomъ
accusative	*mỳdlo	*mỳdlě	*mỳdla
instrumental	mỳdlъmь, mỳdlomь^*	*mỳdloma	*mỳdlȳ
locative	*mỳdlě	*mỳdlu	*mỳdlě̄xъ
vocative	*mỳdlo	*mỳdlě	*mỳdla

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мꙑ́ло (mýlo)
  - Belarusian: мы́ла (mýla)
  - Russian: мы́ло (mýlo)
    - → Ingrian: muila
    - → Lithuanian: muilas
    - → Nivkh: мыло (məlo)
    - → Yakut: мыыла (mııla)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: мыдло (mŷdlo)
  - Ukrainian: ми́ло (mýlo)
- Old Novgorodian: мꙑ́гло (mýglo)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: мꙑло (mylo)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰿⱏⰻⰾⱁ (mylo)
- Bulgarian: ми́ло (mílo) (dated, biblical)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ми̏ло (dated)
  
  Latin: mȉlo (dated)
- Slovene: mílo (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: mýdlo
  - Czech: mýdlo
- Kashubian: mëdło
- Polish: mydło
- Slovak: mydlo
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: mydło
  - Upper Sorbian: mydło

Non-Slavic:
- → Proto-Finnic: *mukla (see there for further descendants)

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mỳdlo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 336: “n. o (a) ‘soap’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “mydlo, pl. mydla”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (for †mydlъ) (NA 115; SA 151)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mỳdlo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 336: “n. o (a) ‘soap’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “mydlo, pl. mydla”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (for †mydlъ) (NA 115; SA 151)”

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