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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xlěvъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (“shelter, cover”) (probably from Old Saxon hlēo (“screen”)[1] in particular), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱloyw-ó-s, from the root *ḱley- (“to cover, shelter”). Cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *klaiwás, *šlaiwás (“bent, crooked”), whence Lithuanian kleĩvas, šleĩvas (“bow-legged”), Latvian klèivs (“bent”).
Noun
*xlě̃vъ m[2][1][3]
- pen, stable, sty
- Synonyms: *staja, *oborъ
Inflection
Declension of *xlě̃vъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *xlě̃vъ | *xlě̄và | *xlě̄vì |
| Accusative | *xlě̃vъ | *xlě̄và | *xlě̄vỳ |
| Genitive | *xlě̄và | *xlě̄vù | *xlě̃vъ |
| Locative | *xlě̄vě̀ | *xlě̄vù | *xlě̃věxъ |
| Dative | *xlě̄vù | *xlě̄vòma | *xlě̄vòmъ |
| Instrumental | *xlě̄vъ̀mь, *xlě̄vòmь* | *xlě̄vòma | *xlě̃vy |
| Vocative | *xlěve | *xlě̄và | *xlě̄vì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *xlěvařь, *xlěvьcь (agent nouns)
- *xlěvina, *xlěvьňa (augmentatives)
Related terms
- *klětь (“celler”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: хлѣвъ (xlěvŭ)
- Belarusian: хлеў (xljeŭ)
- Russian: хлев (xlev)
- Ukrainian: хлів (xliv)
- → Proto-Finnic:
- Finnish: läävä
- Ingrian: läävä
- Karelian: liävä
- Old East Slavic: хлѣвъ (xlěvŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: хлѣвъ (xlěvŭ)
- Bulgarian: хлев (hlev), хляв (hljav) (dialectal)
- Macedonian:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хљев, хли̏јев
- Latin: hljev, hlȉjev
- Slovene: hlẹ̄v (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: chlév
- Czech: chlév, chlív
- Kashubian: chléw
- Polabian: xlev
- Old Polish: chlew
- Polish: chlew
- Silesian: chlyw
- Slovak: chliev
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: chlěw
- Upper Sorbian: khlěw
- Old Czech: chlév
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “хлев”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xlevъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 30
- “kleivas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 117: “PSl. *xlěvъ ‘cattle shed, stable’ (AP B)”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “xlěvъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b stald (PR 134; RPT 98, 102)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “hlev”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *xlěvъ̏”