Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lopěnъ

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

*lepěnъ

Etymology

*lopъ (“leaf”) +‎ *-ěnъ

Noun

*lopěnъ m

great leaf, augmentative of *lopъ
any plant with wide and flabby leaves, particularly
1. burdock (Arctium spp.)
2. mullein (Verbascum spp.)

Inflection

Declension of *lopěnъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*lopěnъ	*lopěna	*lopěni
Accusative	*lopěnъ	*lopěna	*lopěny
Genitive	*lopěna	*lopěnu	*lopěnъ
Locative	*lopěně	*lopěnu	*lopěněxъ
Dative	*lopěnu	*lopěnoma	*lopěnomъ
Instrumental	lopěnъmь, lopěnomь^*	*lopěnoma	*lopěny
Vocative	*lopěne	*lopěna	*lopěni

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- >? Russian: ло́пень (lópenʹ)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ло̀пѐн (lòpèn), ло̀пя̀н (lòpjàn)
- Macedonian: лопен (lopen)
- Serbo-Croatian: (rare)
  Cyrillic script: ло̀пен, лопѐника
  
  Latin script: lòpen, lopènika
- Slovene: lọ̑pen (tonal orthography) (rare)
West Slavic:
- Old Polish: łopian
  - Polish: łopian
  - → Old East Slavic: лопянъ (lopjanŭ)
- Czech: lopín (rare)
- Slovincian: łoṕȯn
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: łoṕeno
  - Upper Sorbian: łopjeno

References

Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “ло̀пен, лопѐн”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 474
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lopěnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 56

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