Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/motovidlo

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

*motovidlo

Etymology

Either:

• *motoviti (“to reel, to spool”) +‎ *-dlo
• *motati (“to reel, to spool”) +‎ *-o- +‎ *vidlo (“tool for reeling, spooling”)
• *motъ (“skein”) +‎ *-o- +‎ *vidlo (“tool for reeling, spooling”)

Noun

*motovidlo n needs accents

1. niddy-noddy

Declension

Declension of *motovidlo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*motovidlo	*motovidlě	*motovidla
genitive	*motovidla	*motovidlu	*motovidlъ
dative	*motovidlu	*motovidloma	*motovidlomъ
accusative	*motovidlo	*motovidlě	*motovidla
instrumental	*motovidlъmь, *motovidlomь*	*motovidloma	*motovidly
locative	*motovidlě	*motovidlu	*motovidlěxъ
vocative	*motovidlo	*motovidlě	*motovidla

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мотовило (motovilo)
    • Old Ruthenian: мотовило (motovilo)
      • Belarusian: матаві́ло (matavílo)
      • Ukrainian: мотови́ло (motovýlo)
    • Russian: мотови́ло (motovílo)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: (dialectal) мотови́ло (motovílo)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: мотови́ла f (motovíla), мотове́ло n (motovélo)
  • Macedonian: мотовило (motovilo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мото̀вило

    Latin script: motòvilo

  • Slovene: motovílọ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: motovidlo
    • Czech: motovidlo
  • Old Polish: motowidło
    • Polish: motowidło
    • Silesian: motowidło
  • Slovak: motovidlo
  • Polabian: mötüvai̯dlĕ
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: mòtowidło
    • Slovincian: môtôwjidlô
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mótejdło
    • Upper Sorbian: motydło, motedło

Further reading

• Snoj, Marko (2016) “motovílo”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “мотовило”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “Матаві́дла”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
• Machek, Václav (1968) “motovidlo”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 375
• Rejzek, Jiří (2001) “motovidlo”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 1st edition, Voznice: LEDA, →ISBN, page 408
• Králik, Ľubor (2016) “motovidlo”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 370
• Polański, Kazimierz (1973) “mötüvai̯dlĕ”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), numbers 3 (ľǫ̇dü – perĕ), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 406
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “motowidło”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), volume 2, →ISBN, page 214