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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/maklenъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *ma/ *mě (mā / mē) (“negation”) + *klenъ.
- Compare same prefix in Slovene macésən (“larch”).
- Compare parallel forms with other prefixes *ne, *pa-: Russian неклён (nekljón) and паклён (pakljón), Czech neklen, Polish nieklon, Bulgarian неклен (neklen), etc.
Noun
*maklenъ m
- some uncertain Acer species
Inflection
Declension of *maklenъ (hard o-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *maklenъ | *maklena | *makleni |
| Accusative | *maklenъ | *maklena | *makleny |
| Genitive | *maklena | *maklenu | *maklenъ |
| Locative | *makleně | *maklenu | *makleněxъ |
| Dative | *maklenu | *maklenoma | *maklenomъ |
| Instrumental | *maklenъmь, *maklenomь* | *maklenoma | *makleny |
| Vocative | *maklene | *maklena | *makleni |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
See also
- *makužavъ
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: маклен (maklen)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ма̏клен, ма̏кљен
- Latin: mȁklen, mȁkljen
- Slovene: maklȅn, meklȅn
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*maklenъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 139