Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/maklenъ

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

From *ma / *mě (mā / mē) (“negation”) +‎ *klenъ.

• Compare same prefix in Slovene macésən (“larch”).
• Compare parallel forms with other prefixes *ne, *pa-: Russian неклён (nekljón) and паклён (pakljón), Czech neklen, Polish nieklon, Bulgarian неклен (neklen), etc.

Noun

*maklenъ m

1. some uncertain Acer species

Inflection

Declension of *maklenъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*maklenъ	*maklena	*makleni
genitive	*maklena	*maklenu	*maklenъ
dative	*maklenu	*maklenoma	*maklenomъ
accusative	*maklenъ	*maklena	*makleny
instrumental	*maklenъmь, *maklenomь*	*maklenoma	*makleny
locative	*makleně	*maklenu	*makleněxъ
vocative	*maklene	*maklena	*makleni

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

See also

• *makužavъ

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: маклен (maklen)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ма̏клен, ма̏кљен

    Latin script: mȁklen, mȁkljen

  • Slovene: maklȅn, meklȅn

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*maklenъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 139