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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polmy
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *polh₁-men-, from *pelh₁-. Morphologically *pol- + *-my.Cognate with Lithuanian pelenaĩ (“ashes”), plė́nis (“speck, fine ashes”), Latvian plẽne (“white ashes on coals”) and Old Prussian pelanne (“ashes”).
Noun
*pòlmy m[1]
- flame
Declension
Declension of *pòlmy (n-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *pòlmy | *pòlmeni | *pòlmene |
| Accusative | *pòlmenь | *pòlmeni | *pòlmeni |
| Genitive | *pòlmene | *pòlmenu | *pòlmenъ |
| Locative | *pòlmene | *pòlmenu | *pòlmenьxъ |
| Dative | *pòlmeni | *pòlmenьma | *pòlmenьmъ |
| Instrumental | *pòlmenьmь | *pòlmenьma | *pòlmenьmī |
| Vocative | *pòlmy | *pòlmeni | *pòlmene |
Related terms
- *paliti
Descendants
An n-stem is unambiguously attested in the majority of Slavic languages, including importantly Old Church Slavonic. The East Slavic languages reflect an extended neuter n-stem *polymę or (for Ukrainian) *polumę instead. Russian borrowed the OCS form but converted it into a neuter n-stem as well. The modern Bulgarian form, although clearly related, has a different suffix, reflecting *polmъkъ.
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: поломѧ n (polomę) [2]
- Russian: по́ломя n (pólomja)
- Ukrainian: полум'я n (polumʺja)
- Old Novgorodian: полымѧ n (polymę) [3]
- → Russian: по́лымя (pólymja)
- → Belarusian: по́лымя (pólymja)
- Old East Slavic: поломѧ n (polomę) [2]
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: пламꙑ (plamy)
- → Russian: пла́мень (plámenʹ), пла́мя n (plámja)
- Bulgarian: пла́мък (plámǎk), пла́мен (plámen) (Western dialects), плам (plam) (poetic)
- Macedonian: пла́мен (plámen), плам (plam) (poetic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пла̏ме̄н, пла̑м (poetic)
- Latin: plȁmēn, plȃm (poetic)
- Slovene: plámen (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic: пламꙑ (plamy)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: plamen
- Czech: plamen
- Kashubian: płom
- Polish: płomień
- Slovak: plameň
- Old Czech: plamen
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пламя”, 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), “*pòlmy”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 411: “m. n (a) ‘flame’”
- Izmail Sreznevsky. Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language on the Basis of Written Records.
- Andrey Zaliznyak. Drevnenovgorodskij dialekt. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul'tury: Moskva. 2004. page 39-40