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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plěšь

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

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”). Synchronically, an abstraction of *plěxa (“cleansed spot”) +‎ *-ь.

Noun

*plě̑šь f[1][2]

  1. bald patch
    Synonym: *lyso
  2. baldness

Alternative forms
  • *plěša f

Declension
Declension of *plě̑šь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *plě̑šь *plě̑ši *plě̑ši
Accusative *plě̑šь *plě̑ši *plě̑ši
Genitive *plěší *plěšьjù, *plěšu* *plěšь̀jь
Locative *plěší *plěšьjù, *plěšu* *plě̑šьxъ
Dative *plě̑ši *plěšьmà *plě̑šьmъ
Instrumental *plěšьjǫ́ *plěšьmà *plěšьmì
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”)
  • *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)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: плѣша (plěša)
      • Bulgarian: плеш (pleš) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Serbo-Croatian: пље̏ша (obsolete)
      Serbo-Croatian: pljȅša (obsolete)
    • Slovene: plẹ̑š, plẹ́ša (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: pleš
    • Old Polish: plesz
    • Slovak: pleš (rare)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: plěch
      • Upper Sorbian: plesa
  • → Romanian: pleș (“bald”)

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*plě̑šь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 405: “f. i (c) ‘bald patch’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “plẹ́ša”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *plě̋ša in *plě̋šь”
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