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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glumъ

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 Proto-Indo-European *gʰlow-m-, from the root *gʰlew-. Cognate with Old Norse glaumr (jubilation), gleyma (to forget, to jubilate, to make merry), Old English glēam (jubilation, joy), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, joke, mockery), χλευάζω (khleuázō, to joke), Lithuanian glaudas, glauda (fun) (Daouksha's dictionary), gláudoti (to joke), Latvian glaudât (to joke).

Noun

*glumъ m

  1. mockery?, amusement?, joke?

Inflection

noun
  • *gluma
verb

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: глум (hlum)
    • Russian: глум (glum) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: глум (hlum)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: глоумъ (glumŭ)
    • Bulgarian: глум (glum)
  • West Slavic:
  • Non-Slavic

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глум”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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