Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golěno

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *goleno (per ESSJa)

Etymology

See *gȍlěnь.

Noun

*gȍlěno n

1. Alternative form of *gȍlěnь (“shin, shank”)

Declension

Declension of *gȍlěno (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gȍlěno	*gȍlěně	*golěnà
genitive	*gȍlěna	*golěnù	*golě̃nъ
dative	*gȍlěnu	*golěnomà	*golěnòmъ
accusative	*gȍlěno	*gȍlěně	*golěnà
instrumental	*gȍlěnъmь, *gȍlěnomь*	*golěnomà	*golěný
locative	*gȍlěně	*golěnù	*golěně̃xъ
vocative	*golěno	*gȍlěně	*golěnà

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: го́лено (góleno), голя́на f (goljána) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: го́лен m (gólen) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (rare)

    Cyrillic script: го̏ле̄н m

    Cyrillic script: го̏ле̄н m

  • Slovene: goléno (tonal orthography) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: holeno

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*golenь/*goleno”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 201