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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/belnъ

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-Indo-European *bʰel-n-o-. Indo-European cognates include Old English beolone, beolene, belene (“henbane”), Danish bylne, buln-urt (“henbane”), Gaulish belenuntia (“henbane”), Belenos (“a god”). Also compare the s-stem variant Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-es-, whence Old High German bilisa, bilesa, bilsa (“henbane”), Spanish belesa, velesa (“henbane”), and probably Welsh bela, bele (“henbane”).

Noun

*belnъ m[1]

  1. henbane

Declension
Declension of *belnъ (hard o-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *belnъ *belna *belni
Accusative *belnъ *belna *belny
Genitive *belna *belnu *belnъ
Locative *belně *belnu *belněxъ
Dative *belnu *belnoma *belnomъ
Instrumental *belnъmь, *belnomь* *belnoma *belny
Vocative *belne *belna *belni
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms
  • *bel(e)na
  • *belenъ
  • *bolnъ
  • *belniti

Descendants
  • Church Slavonic: беленъ (belenŭ, “henbane”) (Russian)
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: белен (belen, “henbane”) (dialectal), белена́ (belená, “henbane”)
    • Ukrainian: беле́на (beléna)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: блян (bljan, “day-dream”), блен (blen, “day-dream”)
    • Macedonian: блен (blen, “dream, day-dream”) (poetic), буника (bunika)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Unspecified: [Term?] (“henbane”) (rare), [Term?] (“henbane”) (rare), [Term?] (“fool, idiot”), бу̑н, бу̀ника
      Latin: blȇn, blȇm, belèna, bȗn, bùnika
    • Slovene: blen (“henbane”)
  • West Slavic:
    • Slovak: blen (“henbane, bitterness”)

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*belenъ; *belenà; *bolnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35: “m. o; f. ā; m. o ‘henbane’”
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