Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kľusę

From pre-Proto-Slavic *kľupsent, equivalent to *kľusъ (“trot, gait”) +‎ *-ę, from Proto-Indo-European *klewp-. Probably akin to Lithuanian klaũptis (“to kneel down”), klùpti (“to trip, to stumble”) and possibly further related to Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap”) (from Proto-Indo-European *klewb-).

*kľusę n

1. beast of burden (usually in pejorative sense)

• *kľusati (“to hurdle one's movement, to walk with difficulty”)
  • *kľusъ (“trot, gait (type of obstructed movement)”)
  • *kľusa (“device for obstructing, trap”)
• *klypati (“to limp, to walk with difficulty”)
• *kľupъ m, *kľupa f (“knot, snare”)
• *kľusьna f (“mare”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: клюсѧ (kljusę)

    Russian: клюся (kljusja)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: клюсѧ (kljusę)
  • Bulgarian: клюсе́ (kljusé)
  • Macedonian: кљусе (kljuse)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кљусе

    Latin script: kljuse

  • Slovene: kljúse
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kľúsě
    • Czech: klíse
  • Old Polish: klusię

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “клюся”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kl'usę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 60
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “клюсѧ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1230
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “клюсе”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 486
• “klùpti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012