Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medovina

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 *medovъ (“made of honey”) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*medovina f

honey extract, mead

Inflection

Declension of *medovina (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*medovina	*medovině	*medoviny
Accusative	*medovinǫ	*medovině	*medoviny
Genitive	*medoviny	*medovinu	*medovinъ
Locative	*medovině	*medovinu	medovinasъ, medovinaxъ^*
Dative	*medovině	*medovinama	*medovinamъ
Instrumental	medovinojǫ, medovinǫ^**	*medovinama	*medovinami
Vocative	*medovino	*medovině	*medoviny

^* -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

*medъ (“honey”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: медови́на (medovína) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: медовина (medovina)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰿⰵⰴⱁⰲⰻⱀⰰ (medovina)
- Bulgarian: медови́на (medovína)
- Macedonian: медовина (medovina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: мѐдовина
  
  Latin: mèdovina
- Slovene: mẹ̑dovina (tonal orthography), medovína
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: medovina
  - Czech: medovina
- Polish: miodowina (dialectal)
- Slovak: medovina
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: mjodowina
  - Upper Sorbian: mjedowina

Non-Slavic:
- → Greek: μεδοβίνα (medovína)