Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/runo

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/runo

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

Formed as *ruti (“to delve, to pluck”) +‎ *-no, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)row-(m)no-, from *Hrew- (“to tear, to dig”). Cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hráwma.

Noun

*rūnò n[1][2][3]

1. fleece

Declension

Declension of *rūnò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*rūnò	*rũně	*rūnà
Accusative	*rūnò	*rũně	*rūnà
Genitive	*rūnà	*rūnù	*rũnъ
Locative	*rūně̀	*rūnù	*rũněxъ
Dative	*rūnù	*rūnòma	*rūnòmъ
Instrumental	*rūnъ̀mь, *rūnòmь*	*rūnòma	*rũny
Vocative	*rūnò	*rũně	*rūnà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *runьnъ, *runěstъ (“pertaining to fleece”)
• *runьta (“sheep's fur, shabby hair”)

Related terms

• *rukъ (“source of motion”) (possibly)
• *ruta, *rutišče (“rug, cloth, fabric”)
• *ruxo (“cloth, gawn”)
• *rǫdъ (“frizzy, curly (for wool)”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: руно (runo)
  • Belarusian: ру́но (rúno)
  • Russian: руно́ (runó)
  • Ukrainian: ру́но (rúno)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: руно (runo)

    Glagolitic: rⱆⱀⱁ (runo)

  • Bulgarian: ру́но (rúno)
  • Macedonian: руно (runo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ру̑но

    Latin: rȗno

  • Slovene: rúno (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: rúno
    • Czech: rouno
  • Polish: runo
  • Slovak: rúno

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “руно́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (2002), “руно”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 344

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*rūnò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 440: “n. o (b) ‘fleece’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “runo”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b skind (PR 135)”
3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “runo”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *runȍ”