Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vina

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

Fossilized verbal noun of otherwise obsolete Proto-Balto-Slavic *wīˀtei (“to persecute”) + *-na, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to hunt, to chase”). Akin to Latvian vaĩna (“guilt”), Lithuanian vainà (“guilt”) (with o-grade ablaut).

Noun

*vinà f

1. fault, guilt, blame

Inflection

Declension of *vinà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vinà	*vȋně	*vȋny
genitive	*viný	*vinù	*vĩnъ
dative	*vině̀	*vinàma	*vinàmъ
accusative	*vȋnǫ	*vȋně	*vȋny
instrumental	*vinojǫ́	*vinàma	*vinàmi
locative	*vȋně	*vinù	*vinàsъ, *vinàxъ*
vocative	*vino	*vȋně	*vȋny

^* -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.

Derived terms

adjectives

• *nevinьnъ
• *vinьnъ
• *vinovьnъ

 

verbs

• *viniti
• *vinovati

 

Related terms

• *vojьna (“war”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вина (vina)
    • Old Ruthenian: вина (vina)
      • Belarusian: віна́ (viná)
      • Ukrainian: вина́ (vyná)
    • Russian: вина́ (viná)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: вина (vina)
  • Bulgarian: вина́ (viná)
  • Macedonian: вина (vina)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vina
    • Czech: vina
  • Old Polish: wina
    • Polish: wina
  • Slovak: vina
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wina
    • Upper Sorbian: wina

• Non-Slavic
  • → Romanian: vină

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вина́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “вина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 148