Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelena

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

Alternative forms

• *pelna

Etymology

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Noun

pelenà f

1. diaper (absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent.)

Inflection

Declension of *pelena (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pelena	*peleně	*peleny
genitive	*peleny	*pelenu	*pelenъ
dative	*peleně	*pelenama	*pelenamъ
accusative	*pelenǫ	*peleně	*peleny
instrumental	*pelenojǫ, *pelenǫ**	*pelenama	*pelenami
locative	*peleně	*pelenu	*pelenasъ, *pelenaxъ*
vocative	*peleno	*peleně	*peleny

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

• *plěna
• *plěva
• *poltьno

Descendants

• East Slavic: пелена (pelena)
  • Russian: пелена́ (pelená)
  • Ukrainian: пелена́ (pelená)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пелена (pelena)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰵⰾⰵⱀⰰ (pelena)

  • Bulgarian: пелена́ (pelená)
  • Macedonian: пе́лена (pélena)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пе̏лена

    Latin script: pȅlena

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: plena
  • ⇒ Polish: pielucha
  • Slovak: plena

References

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