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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gleznъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Uncertain. Both Derksen and Trubachyov point a relation with Old Norse klakkr (“bump, hillock”), Norwegian klakk, dial. Swedish klakk (“heel (shoe); knoll in the field”), Middle High German klac (“a bang, crack, split”) (from pre-Germanic *gloǵno-), which would make the lemma a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *gleǵn- (see Proto-Slavic *glazъ (“ball, eye”) for further etymology). This etymology however demands that Winter's law was not applied in most of the descending forms.
Georgiev draws comparison with Sanskrit ग्लह m (glaha, “gaming, dice”).
Noun
gleznъ m[1]
- ankle
Alternative forms
- *glěznь m
- *glezna f
- *glezno n
Declension
Declension of *gleznъ (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *gleznъ | *glezna | *glezni |
Accusative | *gleznъ | *glezna | *glezny |
Genitive | *glezna | *gleznu | *gleznъ |
Locative | *glezně | *gleznu | *glezněxъ |
Dative | *gleznu | *gleznoma | *gleznomъ |
Instrumental | *gleznъmь, *gleznomь* | *gleznoma | *glezny |
Vocative | *glezne | *glezna | *glezni |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
From *gleznъ m, *glěznь m:
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: глѣзнъ (glěznŭ, “ankle, heel”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: глезьн҄ь (glezĭnʹĭ)
- Glagolitic: ⰳⰾⰵⰸⱐⱀⱐ (glezĭnĭ)
- Bulgarian: гле́зен (glézen), гле́зьнь (glézʹnʹ); гле́жен’ (gléžen’) (dialectal)
- Russian Church Slavonic: глезнъ (gleznŭ, “ankle, heel”); Глезнъ (Gleznŭ, “given name”)
- Macedonian: глезен (glezen), глужд (glužd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гле̏жањ, гле̑жањ, гле̏зан, глијѐжан́ (“ankle; shinbone”)
- Latin: glȅžanj, glȇžanj, glȅzan, glijèžań (“ankle; shinbone”)
- Slovene: gléženj, gléžen (“ankle; wrist”)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hlezen
- Czech: hlezen (archaic)
- →? Ukrainian: гле́зень (hlézenʹ) (dialectal)
- Czech: hlezen (archaic)
- Old Polish: glozn, głozn (“ankle, shin”)
- Sorbian:
- ⇒ Lower Sorbian: glozonk, glozonka
- Old Czech: hlezen
From *glezna f:
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: глѣзна (glězna, “ankle, heel”)
- >? Old Ruthenian: гле́зна (hlézna) (15th-17th cent.)
- Ukrainian: гле́зна (hlézna) (dialectal)
- >? Russian: глёзна (gljózna, “shin, ankle”)
- >? Old Ruthenian: гле́зна (hlézna) (15th-17th cent.)
- Old East Slavic: глѣзна (glězna, “ankle, heel”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: глезьна (glezĭna)
- Glagolitic: ⰳⰾⰵⰸⱐⱀⰰ (glezĭna)
- Bulgarian: глезна́ (glezná) (obsolete)
- → Romanian: gleznă
- → Bulgarian: гле́зна (glézna)
- → Romanian: gleznă
- Russian Church Slavonic: глезна (glezna, “ankle, heel”); Глезна (Glezna) (former Volhynian village, toponym)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гле̏жања (“joint; ankle”)
- Latin: glȅžnja (“joint; ankle”)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hlezna
- Czech: hlezna (archaic)
- Old Polish: glozna (“ankle, shin”)
- Polish: glozna (“elbow joint; ankle; shinbone”) (obsolete)
- Old Czech: hlezna
From *glezno n:
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: глѣзно (glězno, “ankle, heel”)
- >? Old Ruthenian: гле́зно (hlézno) (17th cent.)
- Ukrainian: гле́зно (hlézno) (dialectal)
- >? Old Ruthenian: гле́зно (hlézno) (17th cent.)
- Old East Slavic: глѣзно (glězno, “ankle, heel”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: глезьно (glezĭno)
- Glagolitic: ⰳⰾⰵⰸⱐⱀⱁ (glezĭno)
- Russian Church Slavonic: глезно (glezno, “ankle, heel”)
- Macedonian: глезно (glezno) (folklore)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гле̏жно, гље̏жно, гље̏зно, глезно (“ankle; shinbone”); γлиезно̏ (dialectal)
- Latin: glȅžno, gljȅžno, gljȅzno, glezno (“ankle; shinbone”); γlieznȍ (dialectal)
- Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: gleznȍ, glježno, gljezno
- Slovene: gléžno (“ankle; wrist”)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hlezno
- Czech: hlezno (archaic)
- Old Czech: hlezno
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glezna / *glezno / *gleznъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “глезен, мн. глезени”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 248
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “глаз”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*glezna; *glezno; *gleznъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 163: “f. ā; n. o; m. o ‘ankle(-bone)’”