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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/divizna
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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
*divizna – Verbascum densiflorum
Etymology
The form *divina for this plant seems secondary by relation to the suffix *-ina, somewhat interchangeable with *-izna, *divina literally meaning any animal or plant product of wild (*divъ) origin; a contamination is also patent with *devęsilъ looking at the Slovak form. A derivation from *divъ (“wild”) is uncertain though tempting. The word is recorded for Dacian as διέσεμα, a borrowing from which has been considered, it is also attested however in Lithuanian devynspė͂kė, devynjėgė, still meaning the same plant, but reconstructions for Proto-Indo-European are too daring because this is the limited distribution of the plant name.
Inflection
Declension of *divizna (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *divizna | *divizně | *divizny |
| Accusative | *diviznǫ | *divizně | *divizny |
| Genitive | *divizny | *diviznu | *diviznъ |
| Locative | *divizně | *diviznu | *diviznasъ, *diviznaxъ* |
| Dative | *divizně | *diviznama | *diviznamъ |
| Instrumental | *diviznojǫ, *diviznǫ** | *diviznama | *diviznami |
| Vocative | *divizno | *divizně | *divizny |
* -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).
** 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).
Descendants
- all have been checked and have the meaning Verbascum
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: дзiвáнна (dzivánna), dialectally also дзiвана (dzivana), дзiвена (dzivjena)
- Russian: дива́нка (divánka), дивена (divena), дивина (divina) (all only regionally, and the stress is not told save for the first in Даль)
- Ukrainian: дивина́ (dyvyná) (standard stress, dialectally also диви́на (dyvýna))
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Anikin, A. E. (2019), “дивена”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 13 (два – дигло), Moscow: V. Vinogradov Rus. Lang. Inst., →ISBN, page 357
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*divizna”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 33
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