Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mlinъ

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

Equivalent to *melti +‎ *-inъ.

Noun

*mlinъ m

1. pancake

Inflection

Declension of *mlinъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mlinъ	*mlina	*mlini
genitive	*mlina	*mlinu	*mlinъ
dative	*mlinu	*mlinoma	*mlinomъ
accusative	*mlinъ	*mlina	*mliny
instrumental	*mlinъmь, *mlinomь*	*mlinoma	*mliny
locative	*mlině	*mlinu	*mliněxъ
vocative	*mline	*mlina	*mlini

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: млинъ (mlinŭ)
    • Belarusian: блін (blin), dialectally млін (mlin)
      • → Latvian: bliņas, blìnis, blīns
      • → Lithuanian: blỹnas
    • Russian: блин (blin) (see there for further descendants)
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: млине́ць (mlynécʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: млинъ (mlinŭ)
    • Russian Church Slavonic: млинъ (mlinŭ)
  • Bulgarian: млин (mlin) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (regional)

    Cyrillic script: мли̏нац

    Latin script: mlȉnac

  • Slovene: mlínec
• West Slavic:
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mlin, mlinc (dialectal)
    • Upper Sorbian: mlinc, mlěnc, mlyjńc, mlojnc, mlěńic, mlyńic, blinc, blins, plinc, plins
      • → German: Plinse, Plinze, Plinz, Plins, Flinze, Flinse, Blinse, Blinze, Blinsn
        • → Old Prussian: plinxne
      • → Yiddish: בלינצע (blintse)
        • → English: blintz
      • → Samogitian: plincis

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mlinъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 319
• Tenhagen, Wolfgang (1995) Frühe lexikalische Belege im Domostroj (Veröffentlichungen des Slavisch-Baltischen Seminars der Universität Münster; 8) (in German), Münster · Hamburg · London: Lit Verlag, →ISBN, pages 65–67
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “блин”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress