Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dalь

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

Compare Latvian tāls (“far, distant”), from a suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *to-, but the initial d remains unexplained. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

*dalь f

1. distance

Declension

Declension of *dalь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dalь	*dali	*dali
genitive	*dali	*dalьju, *daľu*	*dalьjь, *dali*
dative	*dali	*dalьma	*dalьmъ
accusative	*dalь	*dali	*dali
instrumental	*dalьjǫ, *daľǫ*	*dalьma	*dalьmi
locative	*dali	*dalьju, *daľu*	*dalьxъ
vocative	*dali	*dali	*dali

^* 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: даль (dalʹ)
  • Ukrainian: даль (dalʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: да̑љ

    Latin script: dȃlj

  • Slovene: dálja (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dál
  • Polish: dal
  • Slovak: ďalej, ďaleko

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “даль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress