Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glǫbina

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 *glǫb(okъ) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*glǫbina f

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Declension

Declension of *glǫbina (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*glǫbina	*glǫbině	*glǫbiny
Accusative	*glǫbinǫ	*glǫbině	*glǫbiny
Genitive	*glǫbiny	*glǫbinu	*glǫbinъ
Locative	*glǫbině	*glǫbinu	*glǫbinasъ, *glǫbinaxъ*
Dative	*glǫbině	*glǫbinama	*glǫbinamъ
Instrumental	*glǫbinojǫ, *glǫbinǫ**	*glǫbinama	*glǫbinami
Vocative	*glǫbino	*glǫbině	*glǫbiny

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic: глубина (glubina)
    • Russian: глубина́ (glubiná)
    • Ukrainian: глибина (hlybyna)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: глѫбина (glǫbina)

  • Bulgarian: глъбина (glǎbina) (archaic)
  • Macedonian: длабина (dlabina)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)

    Cyrillic: глубина

    Latin: glubina

  • Slovene: globína (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hlubina
  • Polish: głębina
  • Slovak: hlbina

Further reading

• Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “глъб”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 253
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glǫbina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 140