Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/olnita

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

Possibly akin to Latin ulna (“forearm bone”), Proto-Germanic *alinō (“ell”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”)?

Noun

*olnìta f

1. cheek

Inflection

Declension of *olnìta (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*olnìta	*olnitě	*olnity
genitive	*olnity	*olnitu	*olnitъ
dative	*olnitě	*olnitama	*olnitamъ
accusative	*olnitǫ	*olnitě	*olnity
instrumental	*olnitojǫ, *olnitǫ**	*olnitama	*olnitami
locative	*olnitě	*olnitu	*olnitasъ, *olnitaxъ*
vocative	*olnìto	*olnitě	*olnity

^* -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).

Related terms

• *olkъ, *olkъtь (“elbow”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: лани́та (laníta) (archaic)
  • Ukrainian: лани́та (lanýta)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰾⰰⱀⰻⱅⰰ (lanita)

    Old Cyrillic script: ланита (lanita)

  • Bulgarian: лани́та (laníta)
  • Slovene: lanita
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lanitva

Further reading

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

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*olnìta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 369