Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lepěnъ

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

Ablaut to *lopěnъ.

Noun

*lepěnъ m

1. great leaf
2. any plant with wide and flabby leaves, particularly
   1. Adenostyles spp.
   2. mullein (Verbascum spp.)
   3. water lily (Nymphaea spp.)

Inflection

Declension of *lepěnъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lepěnъ	*lepěna	*lepěni
genitive	*lepěna	*lepěnu	*lepěnъ
dative	*lepěnu	*lepěnoma	*lepěnomъ
accusative	*lepěnъ	*lepěna	*lepěny
instrumental	*lepěnъmь, *lepěnomь*	*lepěnoma	*lepěny
locative	*lepěně	*lepěnu	*lepěněxъ
vocative	*lepěne	*lepěna	*lepěni

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лепень (lepenĭ)
    • Russian: ле́пе́нь (lépénʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: лѐпѐн (lèpèn), лѐпя̀н (lèpjàn)
  • Macedonian: лопен (lopen)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ле̏пен, лјѐпика

    Latin script: lȅpen, ljèpika

  • Slovene: lepén, lêpen
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: lupen
  • Slovak: lupeň

References

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лѐпѐн”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 363
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lepěnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 119