Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lьnъ
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Noun edit
Inflection edit
Declension of *lь̀nъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Declension of *lь̏nъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лен”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “лен”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 475
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lьnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 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][2] (in Russian), volumes 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][3] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 17
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lь̀nъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 298: “m. o (b) ‘flax’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “lьnъ lьna”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (NA 109, 141); c (SA 21, 139; PR 137) flax”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “lȃn”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*lь̏nъ”