Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děľa

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

Connected with *dělo. Possibly influenced by *dьliti. Baltic cognates include Latvian dēļ, Lithuanian dė̃l (both possibly borrowings from Slavic).

Preposition

*dě̀ľa^[1]^[2]

because of
for the purpose of

Alternative forms

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: дѣлꙗ (dělja)
  - Belarusian: для (dlja), дзеле (dzjelje)
  - Russian: для (dlja)
  - Ukrainian: для (dlja), ді́ля (dílja) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: дѣлꙗ (dělja)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰴⱑⰾⰻⰰ (dělia)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: дијел, диљ (archaic)
  
  Latin script: dijel, dilja (Croatian)
- Slovene: dẹ̑lj
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: dle
  - Czech: dle
- Old Polish: dla
  - Polish: dla
  - Silesian: dlŏ
- Slovak: dľa
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: dlô
  - Slovincian: dlo, dlé (unstressed)

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*děļa; *děļьma; *děļa; *dьļa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102: “prep. ‘because of ’”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “zatẹ̑gadẹ̄lj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *dě̋l'a ‛zaradi’”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*děļa; *děļьma; *děļa; *dьļa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102: “prep. ‘because of ’”

[2] Snoj, Marko (2016) “zatẹ̑gadẹ̄lj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *dě̋l'a ‛zaradi’”

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