Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelnъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Per Vasmer, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-, *pl̥n-. Cognates include Lithuanian pel̃nas (“profit”), Sanskrit पणते (paṇate, “to barter, negotiate”), Ancient Greek πωλέω (pōléō, “I sell”), German feil (“vendible, for sale”)

Noun

*pȇlnъ m

1. loot, spoils
2. captivity

Declension

Declension of *pelnъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pelnъ	*pelna	*pelni
genitive	*pelna	*pelnu	*pelnъ
dative	*pelnu	*pelnoma	*pelnomъ
accusative	*pelnъ	*pelna	*pelny
instrumental	*pelnъmь, *pelnomь*	*pelnoma	*pelny
locative	*pelně	*pelnu	*pelněxъ
vocative	*pelne	*pelna	*pelni

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: полонъ (polonŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: поло́нъ (polón)
      • Belarusian: пало́н (palón)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: пōлон (pōlon)
      • Ukrainian: поло́н (polón)
    • Russian: (archaic, poetic) поло́н (polón)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: плѣнъ (plěnŭ)
    • Bulgarian: плен (plen)
  • Macedonian: плен (plen)
    • → Old Ruthenian: плѣнъ (plěn)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: плїн (pljin)
    • → Russian: плен (plen)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пле̑н, плије̑н

    Latin: plȇn, plijȇn

  • Slovene: plen
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: plen
    • Czech: plen
  • Kashubian: plón
  • Polish: plon
    • → Old Ruthenian: плїонъ (plion)
      • Belarusian: плён (pljon)
  • Slovak: plen

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поло́н”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pelnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 394