Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolnьje

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolnьje

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 *bolnъ +‎ *-ьje, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *balˀnis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolHnis.

Noun

*bolnьje n[1]

1. marsh, lawn
2. lump of slime

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: болонье (bolonĭe)
    • Belarusian: баланье́ (balanʹjé) (dialectal)
    • Russian: бало́нье (balónʹje) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: боло́ня (bolónja), боло́ніе (bolónie), болонь (bolonʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: бланица (blanica) (diminutive)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bláně (archaic)
  • Polabian: blånĕ
  • Polish: błonie

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bolnьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 178
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “блана”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 54

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bolnьje”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53: “n. io”