Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gleznъ
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain.
- Both Derksen and Trubachyov point a relation with Old Norse klakkr (“bump, hillock”), Norwegian klakk, dial. Swedish klakk (“heel (shoe); knoll in the field”), Middle High German klac (“a bang, crack, split”) (from pre-Germanic *gloǵno-), which would make the lemma a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *gleǵn- (see Proto-Slavic *glazъ (“ball, eye”) for further etymology). This etymology however demands that Winter's law was not applied in most of the descending forms.
- Georgiev draws comparison with Sanskrit ग्लह m (glaha, “gaming, dice”).
- Matasović instead compares these Slavic terms with Latin flectō (“to bend”), reconstructing a root Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰleǵʰ- to serve as their ancestor.[1]
Noun
[edit]*gleznъ m[2]
Alternative forms
[edit]Declension
[edit]Declension of *gleznъ (hard o-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *gleznъ | *glezna | *glezni |
genitive | *glezna | *gleznu | *gleznъ |
dative | *gleznu | *gleznoma | *gleznomъ |
accusative | *gleznъ | *glezna | *glezny |
instrumental | *gleznъmь, *gleznomь* | *gleznoma | *glezny |
locative | *glezně | *gleznu | *glezněxъ |
vocative | *glezne | *glezna | *glezni |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
[edit]From *gleznъ m, *glěznь m:
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: глѣзнъ (glěznŭ, “ankle, heel”)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
From *glezna f:
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
From *glezno n:
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Russian Church Slavonic: глезно (glezno, “ankle, heel”)
- Macedonian: глезно (glezno) (folklore)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: gléžno (“ankle; wrist”)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glezna / *glezno / *gleznъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глезен, мн. глезени”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 248
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глаз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2017) “Latin presents in -t- and the etymologies of necto ‘to weave, bind’ and flecto ‘to bend, curve’”, in Pallas[1], number 103, Presses Universitaires du Midi, →ISSN, →JSTOR, retrieved June 5, 2023, pages 37–43
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*glezna; *glezno; *gleznъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 163: “f. ā; n. o; m. o ‘ankle(-bone)’”