Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lopěnъ

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 forms

• *lepěnъ

Etymology

*lopъ (“leaf”) +‎ *-ěnъ

Noun

*lopěnъ m

1. great leaf, augmentative of *lopъ
2. any plant with wide and flabby leaves, particularly
   1. burdock (Arctium spp.)
   2. mullein (Verbascum spp.)

Inflection

Declension of *lopěnъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lopěnъ	*lopěna	*lopěni
genitive	*lopěna	*lopěnu	*lopěnъ
dative	*lopěnu	*lopěnoma	*lopěnomъ
accusative	*lopěnъ	*lopěna	*lopěny
instrumental	*lopěnъmь, *lopěnomь*	*lopěnoma	*lopěny
locative	*lopěně	*lopěnu	*lopěněxъ
vocative	*lopěne	*lopěna	*lopěni

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • >? Russian: ло́пень (lópenʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ло̀пѐн (lòpèn), ло̀пя̀н (lòpjàn)
  • Macedonian: лопен (lopen)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (rare)

    Cyrillic script: ло̀пен, лопѐника

    Latin script: lòpen, lopènika

  • Slovene: lọ̑pen (tonal orthography) (rare)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: lopín (rare)
  • Old Polish: łopian
    • Polish: łopian
    • → Old East Slavic: лопянъ (lopjanŭ)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: łoṕeno
    • Upper Sorbian: łopjeno

References

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “ло̀пен, лопѐн”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 474
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lopěnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 56