Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ľudina

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 *ľudъ or *ľudь +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*ľudina f

1. a large man
2. man, person, human being

Declension

Declension of *ľudina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ľudina	*ľudině	*ľudiny
genitive	*ľudiny	*ľudinu	*ľudinъ
dative	*ľudině	*ľudinama	*ľudinamъ
accusative	*ľudinǫ	*ľudině	*ľudiny
instrumental	*ľudinojǫ, *ľudinǫ**	*ľudinama	*ľudinami
locative	*ľudině	*ľudinu	*ľudinasъ, *ľudinaxъ*
vocative	*ľudino	*ľudině	*ľudiny

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic: *людина (*ljudina)
    • Old Ruthenian: *люди́на (*ljudína)
      • Belarusian: люды́на (ljudýna), людзі́на (ljudzína) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: люди́на (ljudýna)
    • Russian: люди́на (ljudína) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: ļùdina (14ᵗʰ c.)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: љу̀дина

      Latin script: ljùdina

• West Slavic:
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: ludźina