Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dělo

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *dḗˀla, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-los or *dʰeh₁-lom, a fossilized l-participle of Proto-Slavic *děti (“to do, to put on”). Cognate with Lithuanian padėlỹs, priedėlė̃ (“appendix”).

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit दधाति (dádhāti, “to put, to make”), Ancient Greek τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put down, to create”), Latin faciō (“to do”), English do.

Noun

*dě̀lo n

1. deed
2. work

Declension

Declension of *dě̀lo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dě̀lo	*dě̀lě	*dě̀la
genitive	*dě̀la	*dě̀lu	*dě̀lъ
dative	*dě̀lu	*dě̀loma	*dě̀lomъ
accusative	*dě̀lo	*dě̀lě	*dě̀la
instrumental	*dě̀lъmь, *dě̀lomь*	*dě̀loma	*dě̀lȳ
locative	*dě̀lě	*dě̀lu	*dě̀lě̄xъ
vocative	*dě̀lo	*dě̀lě	*dě̀la

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Declension of *dě̀lo (s-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dě̀lo	*dě̀lesi	*dě̀lesā
genitive	*dě̀lese	*dě̀lesu	*dě̀lesъ
dative	*dě̀lesi	*dě̀lesьma	*dě̀lesьmъ
accusative	*dě̀lo	*dě̀lesi	*dě̀lesā
instrumental	*dě̀lesьmь	*dě̀lesьma	*dě̀lesȳ
locative	*dě̀lese	*dě̀lesu	*dě̀lesьxъ
vocative	*dě̀lo	*dě̀lesi	*dě̀lesā

Related terms

• *děti (“to do, to put on”)
• *dějati (“to act”)
• *děvati (“to procede”)
  • *oděvati (“to put on (cloth)”)
  • *vъděvati (“to thread, to bind”)
  • *naděvati (“to hope”)

Derived terms

• *dělati (“to do”)
• *dělьma (“due to, because”) (adverb)
• *dělьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дѣло (dělo)
    • Belarusian: дзе́ла (dzjéla)
    • Russian: де́ло (délo)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: дїло (djilo)
    • Ukrainian: ді́ло (dílo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: дѣло (dělo), gen. дѣлесе (dělese) or дѣла (děla)
  • Bulgarian: де́ло (délo) (Western and literary pronunciation), дя́ло (djálo) (Eastern pronunciation)
  • Macedonian: де́ло (délo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дје̏ло

    Latin script: djȅlo

    • Chakavian : dȉlo
    • Chakavian : dȅlo
    • Chakavian : dȅlo, nom. pl. dȅla
  • Slovene: dẹ́lo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dielo
    • Czech: dílo (“work”); dělo (“cannon”)
  • Polabian: ďolü
  • Kashubian: dzeło
  • Old Polish: działo
    • Polish: dzieło (“work, deed”); działo (“cannon”)
  • Slovak: dielo
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: dźěło
    • Lower Sorbian: źěło

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дело”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dělo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 7
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “дело, дяло”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 338