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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děľa

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

Connected with *dělo. Possibly influenced by *dьliti. Baltic cognates include Latvian dēļ, Lithuanian dė̃l (both possibly borrowings from Slavic).

Preposition

*dě̀ľa[1][2]

  1. because of
  2. for the purpose of

Alternative forms
  • *děľьma
  • *dьľa

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: дѣлꙗ (dělja)
      • Belarusian: дзеле (dzjelje)
      • Russian: для (dlja)
      • Ukrainian: ді́ля (dílja) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: дѣлꙗ (dělja)
      Glagolitic script: ⰴⱑⰾⰻⰰ (dělia)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: дијел, диљ (archaic)
      Latin script: dijel, dilja (Croatian)
    • Slovene: dẹ̑lj
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: dle
    • Kashubian: dlô
    • Old Polish: dla
    • Slovak: dľa

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*děļa; *děļьma; *děļa; *dьļa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102: “prep. ‘because of ’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “zatẹ̑gadẹ̄lj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *dě̋l'a ‛zaradi’”
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