Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kalina

Likely *kalъ (“mud, dirt”) +‎ *-ina, by the plant’s preference for wet, muddy places to grow.

*kalina f

1. snowball tree (Viburnum spp., especially Viburnum opulus)

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• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: калина (kalina)
    • Old Ruthenian: кали́на (kalína)
      • Belarusian: калі́на (kalína)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: кали́на (kalýna)
      • Ukrainian: кали́на (kalýna)
    • Russian: кали́на (kalína)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: кали́на (kalína), къли́на (kǎlína) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: калина (kalina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ка̀лина

    Latin script: kàlina

  • Slovene: kalína
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: kalina
  • Kashubian: kalëna
  • Polish: kalina
  • Slovak: kalina
  • Slovincian: kalëna
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kalina
    • Upper Sorbian: kalena

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kalina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 120
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “кали́на”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress