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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъldni
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Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *mъldnьji[1]
- *mъlnьji[1]
- *mьlnьji[1]
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mildnis, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dʰ-ni-s, from *meldʰ- (“lightning”).
Baltic cognates include Latvian milna (“hammer of the thunderer”), Old Prussian mealde (“lightning”).
Probable other Indo-European cognates include Old Norse Mjǫllnir (“Thor's hammer”), Middle Welsh mellt, myllt, Welsh mellt (“lightning”).
Noun
*mъldni f
- lightning
Inflection
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мълнии (mŭlnij), мълнꙗ (mŭlnja)
- Belarusian: мала́нка (malánka), мо́лання (mólannja) (dialectal), мало́ння (malónnja) (dialectal), маладня́ (maladnjá) (dialectal)
- Russian: мо́лния (mólnija), моло́нья (molónʹja) (dialectal), молодня́ (molodnjá) (dialectal), меленья́ (melenʹjá) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: маладня́ (maladnjá) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: млъни (mlŭni), млънии (mlŭnij), млъньи (mlŭnĭj), мльнии (mlĭnij), мльньи (mlĭnĭj)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⰾⱏⱀⰻ (mlŭni), ⰿⰾⱏⱀⰻⰻ (mlŭnii)
- Bulgarian: мъ́лния (mǎ́lnija)
- Macedonian: молња (molnja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: му́ња
- Latin: múnja
- Slovene: molnja
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: mlna (archaic)
- Kashubian: môłniô, mniô, melniô
- Polabian: måuńa
- Slovincian: mɵʉ̯łnǻu̯
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mъldni”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 333
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “мо́лния”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary