Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/metadlo

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 *metati (“throw”) +‎ *-dlo.

Noun

*metadlo n

1. throwing tool, instrument

Declension

Declension of *metadlo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*metadlo	*metadlě	*metadla
genitive	*metadla	*metadlu	*metadlъ
dative	*metadlu	*metadloma	*metadlomъ
accusative	*metadlo	*metadlě	*metadla
instrumental	*metadlъmь, *metadlomь*	*metadloma	*metadly
locative	*metadlě	*metadlu	*metadlěxъ
vocative	*metadlo	*metadlě	*metadla

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

Derived terms

• *meta(d)lica (possibly)
• *metadlišče
• *metadlьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Russian: метало (metalo), метала m (metala)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: мета́ло (metálo) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мѐтало

    Latin script: mètalo

  • Slovene: metálo
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: metadlo
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: mjetadło

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*metadlo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 109