Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zъlo

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 *zъlъ (“bad”) +‎ *-o.

Noun

*zъlo n^[1]

evil

Declension

Declension of *zъlo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*zъlo	*zъlě	*zъla
genitive	*zъla	*zъlu	*zъlъ
dative	*zъlu	*zъloma	*zъlomъ
accusative	*zъlo	*zъlě	*zъla
instrumental	zъlъmь, zъlomь^*	*zъloma	*zъly
locative	*zъlě	*zъlu	*zъlěxъ
vocative	*zъlo	*zъlě	*zъla

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: зъло (zŭlo)
  - Old Ruthenian: зло (zlo)
    - Belarusian: зло (zlo)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: зло (zlo)
    - Ukrainian: зло (zlo)
  - Russian: зло (zlo)
- Old Novgorodian: ꙁъло (zŭlo)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic script: ⰸⱏⰾⱁ (zŭlo)
  
  Old Cyrillic script: зъло (zŭlo)
  - Bulgarian: зло (zlo)
  - Macedonian: зло (zlo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: зло̏
  
  Latin script: zlȍ
- Slovene: zlȍ (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: zlo
- Polish: zło
- Slovak: zlo
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: zło

References

^ Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1985), “зло”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 3 (га! – інчэ́), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 335: “прасл. *zъlo”