Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polъ
Proto-SlavicEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Probably from Proto-Balto-Slavic, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelH- (“to chop, to separate”). Compare Proto-Slavic *polъka, *polica (“shelf, file”).
NounEdit
- side, flank
- *na *onomь *polu ― on [the] yonder side
- half
- *orzděľati *polъma ― to divide in two
- member of a pair of options → gender, sex
InflectionEdit
Declension of *polъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Secondarily:
Declension of *polъ (u-stem)
Derived termsEdit
- *pola (“moiety”)
- *polovъ (“halved”)
- *polъ-, *polu- (“half-, semi-, mid-”)
- *polъtora (“one and a half”)
- *poludьnь, *poldьnь (“midday”)
- *polъnoťь, *polunoťь (“midnight”)
- *polugodьje, *polъročьje (“half-year”)
- *polěno
DescendantsEdit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further readingEdit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пол”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Duridanov I., Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (1996), “пол¹ (gender), пол² (half)”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 489
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pol¹”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 412: “m. o ‘half ’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “1polъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c køn, halvdel (PR 137)”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016), “pol”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *pȍlъ”
Etymology 2Edit
Either identical with Etymology 1 or from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, to span, to fold”), *pleh₂- (“to flatten”).
NounEdit
InflectionEdit
Declension of *pȍlъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Derived termsEdit
- *polovica (“stretch, strip”)
Related termsEdit
- *polti (“to fold, to twine”)
- *pelena (“nappy”)
- *plěna (“membrane”)
- *polsa (“strip”)
- *poľe (“field”)
- *polnina (“mountain”)
DescendantsEdit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: поли́ pl (polí, “fells, slopes (of mountain)”)
Further readingEdit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пол”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Duridanov I., Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (1996), “пола”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 491
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pol²”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 412: “m. o”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “2polъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c belægning (PR 137)”