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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plěšь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Cognate with Lithuanian plìkas (“bald”), pléikė (“bald patch”), Latvian pliks (“bare, bald”), possibly dialectal Norwegian flein (“bald patch”), perhaps ultimalely from a k-extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to pluck, to trim, to splice”). By surface analysis, *plěxa (“cleansed spot”) + *-ь.
Alternative forms
- *plěša f
Declension
Declension of *plě̑šь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *plě̑šь | *plě̑ši | *plě̑ši |
genitive | *plěší | *plěšьjù, *plěšu* | *plěšь̀jь |
dative | *plě̑ši | *plěšьmà | *plě̑šьmъ |
accusative | *plě̑šь | *plě̑ši | *plě̑ši |
instrumental | *plěšьjǫ́ | *plěšьmà | *plěšьmì |
locative | *plěší | *plěšьjù, *plěšu* | *plě̑šьxъ |
vocative | *plěši | *plě̑ši | *plě̑ši |
* 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).
Derived terms
- *plěšьcь (“bald person”)
- *plěšina (“baldness”)
- *plěšivъ, *plěšastъ (“bald”)
Related terms
- *plěxъ (“rare, faint, obscure”), *plěxavъ (“pale, faint”)
- *plěšiti (“to peel, to trim, to clear off”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
- Belarusian: плеш (plješ)
- Russian: плешь (plešʹ)
- Ukrainian: плíш (plíš)
- Old East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- → Romanian: pleș (“bald”)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плешь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “плешив”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 349
- “pleikė”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plě̑šь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 405: “f. i (c) ‘bald patch’”
- Snoj, Marko (2016) “plẹ́ša”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *plě̋ša in *plě̋šь”
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