Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/blěskъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blaiskas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰloyǵ- + *-skъ. A direct cognate with Latvian blaiskums, blaizgums (“spot”) and related to Lithuanian blizgas (“glimmer”), akin to the 0-grade *blьskъ (< *bliskas). Outside of Balto-Slavic, related to Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale”) whence German Blitz (“lightning”).
Noun
editInflection
editDeclension of *blě̑skъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *blě̑skъ | *blě̑ska | *blě̑sci |
genitive | *blě̑ska | *blěskù | *blě̃skъ |
dative | *blě̑sku | *blěskomà | *blěskòmъ |
accusative | *blě̑skъ | *blě̑ska | *blě̑sky |
instrumental | *blě̑skъmь, *blě̑skomь* | *blěskomà | *blěský |
locative | *blě̑scě | *blěskù | *blěscě̃xъ |
vocative | *blěšče | *blě̑ska | *blě̑sci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: bleasc
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “блеск”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*blěskъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 113
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “блестя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 55
References
edit- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*blě̑skъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 43: “m. o (c) ‘brightness’”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “blesk”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *blě̑skъ”
Categories:
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-skъ
- Proto-Slavic lemmas
- Proto-Slavic nouns
- Proto-Slavic masculine nouns
- Proto-Slavic hard o-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic hard masculine o-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c