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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polmy
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *palmōns, from Proto-Indo-European *polh₁-men-, from *pelh₁-. Morphologically *pol- + *-my. Cognate with Lithuanian pelenaĩ (“ashes”), plė́nis (“speck, fine ashes”), Latvian plẽne (“white ashes on coals”) and Old Prussian pelanne (“ashes”).
Declension
Declension of *pòlmy (n-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *pòlmy | *pòlmeni | *pòlmene |
genitive | *pòlmene | *pòlmenu | *pòlmenъ |
dative | *pòlmeni | *pòlmenьma | *pòlmenьmъ |
accusative | *pòlmenь | *pòlmeni | *pòlmeni |
instrumental | *pòlmenьmь | *pòlmenьma | *pòlmenьmī |
locative | *pòlmene | *pòlmenu | *pòlmenьxъ |
vocative | *pòlmy | *pòlmeni | *pòlmene |
Related terms
Descendants
An n-stem is unambiguously attested in the majority of Slavic languages, including importantly Old Church Slavonic. The East Slavic languages reflect an extended neuter n-stem *polymę or (for Ukrainian) *polumę instead. Russian borrowed the OCS form but converted it into a neuter n-stem as well. The modern Bulgarian form, although clearly related, has a different suffix, reflecting *polmъkъ.
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пламя”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pòlmy”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 411: “m. n (a) ‘flame’”
- Izmail Sreznevsky. Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language on the Basis of Written Records.
- Andrey Zaliznyak. Drevnenovgorodskij dialekt. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul'tury: Moskva. 2004. page 39-40
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