Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lьnъ

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lína n, from Proto-Indo-European *línom (per Derksen, perhaps a non-Indo-European culture word). Baltic cognates include Lithuanian lìnas pl, Latvian lini pl, Old Prussian linno.

Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek λίνον (línon, “flax”), Latin līnum (“flax, linen”), Old Irish lín (“flax, linen, cloth”), Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”).

*lь̀nъ or *lь̏nъ m[1][2][3]

1. flax

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• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: льнъ (lĭnŭ), ленъ (lenŭ)
    • Belarusian: лён (ljon)
    • Russian: лён (ljon)
    • Ukrainian: льон (lʹon), лен (len)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: льнъ (lĭnŭ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: лен (len)
  • Macedonian: лен (len)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ла̏н

    Latin script: lȁn

  • Slovene: lȃn (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: len
    • Czech: len
  • Polabian: ĺån
  • Polish: len
  • Slovak: ľan
  • Slovincian: len
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: len
    • Lower Sorbian: lan

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “лен”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “лен”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 475
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lьnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 87
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902), “льнъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 66
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902), “ленъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 17