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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/selzenь
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From a tentative Proto-Indo-European *splǵʰ-ēn- (“spleen”).[1]Compare Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn), Latin liēn, Sanskrit प्लिहन् (plihan), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬥 (spərəzan) and Lithuanian blužnìs
Noun
*selzenь f
- spleen, milt
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- ⇒ Belarusian: селязёнка (sjeljazjónka)
- ⇒ Russian: селезёнка (selezjónka)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: селезі́нка (selezínka)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: слѣзена (slězena)
- Bulgarian: слезка (slezka)
- Macedonian: слезина (slezina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слезина, слезена
- Latin: slezina, slezena
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: slezina
- Czech: slezina
- Kashubian: słodzëna
- Old Polish: słodzona
- Polish: śledziona
- Slovak: slezina
- Old Czech: slezina
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “lien”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “селезёнка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress