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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plěna

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-Balto-Slavic *plēnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *plēn-eh₂, from the root *pel- (“to cover, wrap; covering, skin, hide”). Baltic cognates include Latvian plẽne, Lithuanian plėnė̃ (“membrane”), Old Prussian pleynis (“cerebral membrane”).

Noun

*plěna f[1]

  1. membrane

Declension
Declension of *plěna (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *plěna *plěně *plěny
genitive *plěny *plěnu *plěnъ
dative *plěně *plěnama *plěnamъ
accusative *plěnǫ *plěně *plěny
instrumental *plěnojǫ, *plěnǫ** *plěnama *plěnami
locative *plěně *plěnu *plěnasъ, *plěnaxъ*
vocative *plěno *plěně *plěny
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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).

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • ⇒ Belarusian: плёнка (pljónka, “film”)
    • Russian: плена́ (plená, “membrane”)
    • Ukrainian: пліна́ (pliná, “membrane”), плінь (plinʹ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

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

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plěna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 404: “f. ā ‘membrane’”
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