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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děľa

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Connected with *dělo. Possibly influenced by *dьliti. Baltic cognates include Latvian dēļ, Lithuanian dė̃l (both possibly borrowings from Slavic).

Preposition

*děľa [1]

  1. because of

Alternative forms
  • *děľьma
  • *dьľa

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: дѣлꙗ (dělja)
      • Belarusian: дзеле (dzjelje)
      • Russian: для (dlja)
      • Ukrainian: ді́ля (dílja) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic: дѣлꙗ (dělja)
      Unspecified: [Term?]
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Unspecified: [Term?] (archaic)
      Latin: dijel
    • Slovene: delj
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: dle
    • Old Polish: dziela

Further reading
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “для”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*děļa; *děļьma; *děļa; *dьļa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 102: “prep. ‘because of ’”
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