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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plěna
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *plēn-eh₂, from *pel-. Baltic cognates include Latvian plẽne, Lithuanian plėnė̃ (“membrane”), Old Prussian pleynis (“cerebral membrane”).
Declension
Declension of *plěna (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *plěna | *plěně | *plěny |
Accusative | *plěnǫ | *plěně | *plěny |
Genitive | *plěny | *plěnu | *plěnъ |
Locative | *plěně | *plěnu | *plěnasъ, *plěnaxъ* |
Dative | *plěně | *plěnama | *plěnamъ |
Instrumental | *plěnojǫ, *plěnǫ** | *plěnama | *plěnami |
Vocative | *plěno | *plěně | *plěny |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
Further reading
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “плена́”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*plěna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 404: “f. ā ‘membrane’”
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