Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dateľь

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 *dati +‎ *-teľь.

Noun

*dateľь m[1]

  1. giver, donor

Inflection

Declension of *dateľь (soft o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *dateľь *dateľa *dateľi
genitive *dateľa *dateľu *dateľь
dative *dateľu *dateľema *dateľemъ
accusative *dateľь *dateľa *dateľę̇
instrumental *dateľьmь, *dateľemь* *dateľema *dateľi
locative *dateľi *dateľu *dateľixъ
vocative *dateľu *dateľa *dateľi

* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: да́тель (dátelʹ) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: датель (datelĭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⰴⰰⱅⰵⰾⱐ (datelĭ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: дȁтељ
      Latin script: dȁtelj
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dateļь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96:m. jo ‘giver, donor’