Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bělina

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 *bělъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*bělina f

1. whiteness

Declension

Declension of *bělina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bělina	*bělině	*běliny
genitive	*běliny	*bělinu	*bělinъ
dative	*bělině	*bělinama	*bělinamъ
accusative	*bělinǫ	*bělině	*běliny
instrumental	*bělinojǫ, *bělinǫ**	*bělinama	*bělinami
locative	*bělině	*bělinu	*bělinasъ, *bělinaxъ*
vocative	*bělino	*bělině	*běliny

^* -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:
  • Russian: бели́на (belína) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: белина́ (beliná)
  • Macedonian: белина (belina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: белѝна

    Latin script: belìna

    • Chakavian (Orbanići): belĩna (“species of grapes”)
    • Kajkavian (Ozalj): belína
    • Kajkavian (Varaždin): bȩl'ina
  • Slovene: belína
    • (Zadrečka dolina): bẹ'li̧na
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: bělina
    • Czech: bělina

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bělina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 66