Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plěšь

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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

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Etymology

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Cognate with Lithuanian plìkas (bald), pléikė (bald patch), Latvian pliks (bare, bald), possibly dialectal Norwegian flein (bald patch), perhaps ultimalely from a k-extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (to pluck, to trim, to splice). By surface analysis, *plěxa (cleansed spot) +‎ *-ь.

Noun

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*plě̑šь f[1][2]

  1. bald patch
    Synonym: *lyso
  2. baldness

Alternative forms

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Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Romanian: pleș (bald)

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плешь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “плешив”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 349
  • pleikė”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plě̑šь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 405:f. i (c) ‘bald patch’
  2. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “plẹ́ša”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *plě̋ša in *plě̋šь