Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/klějь

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 reconstructions

*klьjь, *kъlьjь, *kъlějь[1]

Etymology

Unclear. Perhaps:

Deverbal of *kъliti (“to stick”) +‎ *-ějь (cf. Slovene kəliti), from tentative Proto-Indo-European *kol-. Possible cognates include Ancient Greek κόλλᾰ (kólla) and Middle Low German helen.
Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *klaij (“clay”)[2], from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (whence Proto-Slavic *glьjь (“mud, sludge”)). Rejected by most Slavists.[3]

Noun

*klějь m[4][2][3]

glue, resin

Declension

Declension of *klě̑jь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*klě̑jь	*klě̑ja	*klě̑ji
genitive	*klě̑ja	*klějù	*klě̃jь
dative	*klě̑ju	*klějemà	*klějèmъ
accusative	*klě̑jь	*klě̑ja	*klě̑ję̇
instrumental	klě̑jьmь, klě̑jemь^*	*klějemà	*klějí
locative	*klě̑ji	*klějù	*klějĩxъ
vocative	*klěju	*klě̑ja	*klě̑ji

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: клѣи (klěi), клии (klii)
  - Old Ruthenian: клѣй (klěj)
    - Belarusian: клей (kljej); клыйи́ pl (klyjí) (dialectal)
    - Ukrainian: клей (klej)
  - Russian: клей (klej)
    - → Armenian: կլեյ (kley)
    - → Bezhta: кэлей (kelej)
    - → Ingrian: kleja
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic script: ⰽⰾⱑⰻ (klěi)
  
  Old Cyrillic script: клѣи (klěi)
  - Bulgarian: клей (klej)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: кли̏ја f; кле̑ј (archaic, bookish)
  
  Latin script: klȉja f; klȇj (archaic, bookish)
- Slovene: klẹ̑j, kleg (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: klí
  - Czech: klí, klih, klíh; klej (dialectal, obsolete)
- Old Polish: klej, klij
  - Polish: klej, klij
    - → Yiddish: קליי (kley)
  - Silesian: klyj
- Old Slovak:
  - Pannonian Rusyn: клий (klij)
- Pomeranian:
  - Slovincian: kléj
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: klij
  - Upper Sorbian: klij

References

Olander, Thomas (2001) “kъlějь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 157)”
Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎, Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 176: “PSl. *klějь/*klьjь ‘glue’ (m. jo-stem)”
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*klějь/*klьjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 19
Derksen, Rick (2008) “*klějь; *klьjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 224