Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/barina

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 *bara (“pond”) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*barina f^[1]^[2]

(West and South Slavic) swamp

Declension

Declension of *barina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*barina	*barině	*bariny
genitive	*bariny	*barinu	*barinъ
dative	*barině	*barinama	*barinamъ
accusative	*barinǫ	*barině	*bariny
instrumental	barinojǫ, barinǫ^**	*barinama	*barinami
locative	*barině	*barinu	barinasъ, barinaxъ^*
vocative	*barino	*barině	*bariny

^* -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).

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ба̏рина
  
  Latin script: bȁrina
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: bařina
  - Czech: bařina
    - ⇒ Czech: bažina
      - → Silesian: barzina
      - → Upper Sorbian: bažina
- Slovak: barina

References

^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “barina”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 193
^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*barina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 159

[1] Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “barina”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 193

[2] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*barina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 159

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