Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/okolina

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 *okolo +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*okolina f

Declension

Declension of *okolina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*okolina	*okolině	*okoliny
genitive	*okoliny	*okolinu	*okolinъ
dative	*okolině	*okolinama	*okolinamъ
accusative	*okolinǫ	*okolině	*okoliny
instrumental	okolinojǫ, okolinǫ^**	*okolinama	*okolinami
locative	*okolině	*okolinu	okolinasъ, okolinaxъ^*
vocative	*okolino	*okolině	*okoliny

^* -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:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: околина (okolina)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱁⰽⱁⰾⰻⱀⰰ (okolina)
- Bulgarian: око́лина (okólina)
- Macedonian: околина (okolina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: околѝна
  
  Latin script: okolìna
  - Chakavian (Orlec): okolĩna
  - Kajkavian (Varaždin): okol'ina
West Slavic:
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: wokolina
  - Lower Sorbian: wokolina

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2000), “*obkolina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 27 (*obgordja/*obgordjь – *oblězati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 131