Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/debelina

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

By surface analysis, *debelъ (“fat”) +‎ *-ina (“collective suffix”).

Noun

*debelina f^[1]

fatness, thickness

Inflection

Declension of *debelina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*debelina	*debelině	*debeliny
genitive	*debeliny	*debelinu	*debelinъ
dative	*debelině	*debelinama	*debelinamъ
accusative	*debelinǫ	*debelině	*debeliny
instrumental	debelinojǫ, debelinǫ^**	*debelinama	*debelinami
locative	*debelině	*debelinu	debelinasъ, debelinaxъ^*
vocative	*debelino	*debelině	*debeliny

^* -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

East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: дебелина́ (debelyná)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: дебелина̀ (debelinà)
- Macedonian: дебелина (debelina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: дебелѝна
  
  Latin script: debelìna
- Slovene: debelína (tonal orthography)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*debelina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 201

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*debelina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 201

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