дѣло

From Proto-Slavic *dělo, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-l-.

дѣло • (dělo) n

1. deed, act
   • Luke 24:19-20, from Codex Assemanius, 3241900-3241920:

     ꙇ́же бъис꙯ мѫжь пррок꙯ · силенъ дѣломъ и́ словомъ ·

     íže bŷis: mǫžĭ prrok: · silenŭ dělomŭ í slovomŭ ·

     He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed.

2. work, occupation, activity
3. (by metonymy) income
4. work, creation
   • Ретъко, editor (1025±50?), “дѣломъ”, in Codex Suprasliensis‎^[1] (in Old Church Slavonic), page (leaf) 131.5, line 29:

     не сътворите себѣ капищъ · ни поклан҄ѣи҅те сѧ дѣломъ рѫкъ вашихъ · ни и҅нои҆ твари никоѥи҅же ·

     ne sŭtvorite sebě kapištŭ · ni poklanʹjhěite sę dělomŭ rǫkŭ vašixŭ · nhi inoi tvari nikojheiže ·

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5. thing, matter
6. (later Church Slavonic) fruit

• дѣлати (dělati)
• дѣльникъ (dělĭnikŭ)

• дѣти (děti)

• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “дѣло”, in Старославянский словарь (по рукописям X—XI веков) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)] (overall work in Russian), Moscow: Russkij jazyk
• Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “дѣло”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae) (overall work in Czech), Prague: Euroslavica
• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26), Helsinki: University of Helsinki

дѣ́ло • (dě́lo) n inan (genitive дѣ́ла, nominative plural дѣла́, genitive plural дѣлъ)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of де́ло (délo).