oldi

oldi Grammatical information: f. ī Proto-Slavic meaning: `boat'

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Old Church Slavic:

al(ъ)dii (Zogr., Supr.) `ship, boat' [f iā];

ladii (Zogr., Mar.) `ship, boat' [f iā]

Russian:

lad'já `rook, (arch., dial.) boat' [f iā];

lód'ja (dial.) `boat, trough' [f iā]

Old Russian:

lodьja `boat' [f iā]

Ukrainian:

lódja `boat, (dial.) `trough' [f iā]

Czech:

lod' `boat' [f i/jā]

Old Czech:

lodí `boat' [f iā]

Polish:

ɫódź `boat' [f i]

Old Polish:

ɫodziá `boat' [f iā]

Serbo-Croatian:

lȃđa `boat' [f jā];

Čak. lå̃đa (Vrgada) `boat' [f jā]

Slovene:

ládja `boat' [f jā]

Bulgarian:

ládija `canoe, boat' [f jā]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: old-iH-aH

Lithuanian:

eldijà `hollowed out tree trunk, canoe' [f jā] 3^b;

aldijà `hollowed out tree trunk, canoe' [f jā] 3^b \{1\}

Indo-European reconstruction: Holdʰ-eh₂; h₂eldʰ-eh₂

IE meaning: hollowed out object or spot

Certainty: -

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Other cognates:

OE ealdoht `trough, vessel' [f?];

OE aldaht `trough, vessel' [f?];

Nw. olda (dial.) `large trough, often made from a hollowed out tree trunk' [f];

Sw. ålla (dial.) `elongated deepened spot, container' [f];

MoHG alden (dial.) `furrow'

Notes:

\{1\} According to Zinkevičius (1966: 124), the forms with a- occur exclusively in those dialects where *e- > a- .