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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bel(e)niti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Verb

*bel(e)niti [1]

  1. to rage

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: узбелени́ться (uzbelenítʹsja, to become infuriated) (dialectal), болони́ть (bolonítʹ, to pester bore) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: блену́вам (blenúvam, to be poisoned by henbane, day-dream)
    • Macedonian: бленува (blenuva, to dream)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: бла́нити (to go crazy, rage)
      Latin: blániti
    • Slovene: blencáti (to talk in ones sleep, rave, chatter), belendáti (rave, phantasize) (from Hungarian)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: blenovati (to chatter)

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bel(e)niti; *belnovati; *bolniti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35: “v. ‘rage’”
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