плен

From Proto-Slavic *pelnъ.

плен • (plen) m

1. prey
2. booty

• пленик (plenik)
• пленство (plenstvo)

• плѣнъ (plěn) (Pre-reform orthography (1918))

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плѣнъ (plěnŭ, “booty”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover”), whence English pelt and fell. Compare the inherited East Slavic doublet поло́н (polón).

• IPA^(key): [plʲen]

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плен • (plen) m inan (genitive пле́на, nominative plural пле́ны, genitive plural пле́нов)

1. captivity, custody

   • газета «Русское слово», 1916.04.04 :

     на примо́рском фро́нте на́ми захва́чено в плен о́коло 100 аскеров

     na primórskom frónte námi zaxváčeno v plen ókolo 100 askerov

     on the seaside front we took ca. 100 soldiers into custody

• пле́нник (plénnik)
• пле́нница (plénnica)
• пле́нный (plénnyj)
• пленя́ть (plenjátʹ)

• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “плен”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

• плије̑н (Ijekavian)

From earlier plěnъ, from Proto-Slavic *pelnъ.

• IPA^(key): /plêːn/

пле̑н m (Latin spelling plȇn)

1. booty, plunder