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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ely

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 forms

Etymology

Eventually from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-h₁en (“red deer, elk”).[4][6]

Noun

*elỳ m[4]

  1. deer

Declension

According to Klotz, initially, the form belonged to the consonant stem and accent paradigm a.[5] According to Verweij, the form belongs to the accent paradigm b.[1]

nouns

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: олень (olenĭ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: jelen
      • Czech: jelen; jeľeň (dialectal)
    • Kashubian: jeléń
    • Old Polish: jeleń
      • Polish: jeleń; jeliń, leleń, leliń, wieleń, wileń (dialectal)
        • → Old Ruthenian: єлень (jelenʹ)
    • Silesian: lelyń
    • Slovak: jeleň
    • Sorbian:

References

  1. Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 540
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “jélen”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si
  3. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*eleņь; *elenъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
  4. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*elenъ / *elenь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 20
  5. Klotz, Emanuel (2017) Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary]‎, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN, page 101: “*e̱leni”
  6. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 253
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