Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/talь

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

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Perhaps, related to Latin tālea and Ancient Greek τᾶλις (tâlis).

Noun

*talь m

1. hostage

Declension

Declension of *talь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*talь	*tala	*tali
genitive	*tala	*talu	*talь
dative	*talu	*talema	*talemъ
accusative	*talь	*tala	*talę̇
instrumental	*talьmь, *talemь*	*talema	*tali
locative	*tali	*talu	*talixъ
vocative	*talu	*tala	*tali

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: таль (talĭ)
    • Russian: таль (talʹ)
    • Ukrainian: таль (talʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: та́лац

    Latin script: tálac

  • Slovene: tȃlec (tonal orthography)

Further reading

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