Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/poľana

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 *poľe.

Noun

*poľana f

meadow, glade

Declension

Declension of *poľana (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*poľana	*poľaně	*poľany
Accusative	*poľanǫ	*poľaně	*poľany
Genitive	*poľany	*poľanu	*poľanъ
Locative	*poľaně	*poľanu	poľanasъ, poľanaxъ^*
Dative	*poľaně	*poľanama	*poľanamъ
Instrumental	poľanojǫ, poľanǫ^**	*poľanama	*poľanami
Vocative	*poľano	*poľaně	*poľany

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: полѧна (polęna)
  - Old Ruthenian: полѧна (poljana), полѣна (polěna)
    - Belarusian: паля́на (paljána)
    - Ukrainian: поля́на (poljána)
  - Russian: поля́на (poljána)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Russian Church Slavonic: полꙗна (poljana)
  - Serbian Church Slavonic: полꙗна (poljana)
- Bulgarian: поля́на (poljána)
- Macedonian: полјана (poljana)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: по̀љана
  Latin: pòljana
- Slovene: poljána (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: pòlana
- Polish: polana
- Slovak: poľana