Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pleťe

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *plet-, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-.

Noun

*pleťè n

shoulder

Declension

Declension of *pleťè (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pleťè	*plèťi	*plèťa
genitive	*pleťà	*pleťu	*plèťь
dative	*pleťù	*pleťema	*plèťemъ
accusative	*pleťè	*plèťi	*plèťa
instrumental	pleťь̀mь, pleťèmь^*	*pleťema	*plèťi
locative	*pleťì	*pleťu	*plèťixъ
vocative	*pleťè	*plèťi	*plèťa

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Synonyms

*òrmo

Descendants

East Slavic: плече (pleče), плечи du (pleči), плеча pl (pleča)
- Belarusian: плячо́ (pljačó), пле́чы pl (pljéčy)
- Russian: плечо́ (plečó), пле́чи pl (pléči), плеча́ pl (plečá) (archaic)
- Ukrainian: плече́ (plečé), пле́чі pl (pléči)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: плєщє (plešte), плєщи du (plešti), плєща pl (plešta) (“scapula bones”)
- Bulgarian: пле́щи pl (pléšti, “scapula”)
- Macedonian: плеќи pl (pleḱi, “scapula”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: плѐће, плѐћа pl, пле̏ħи f pl (“scapula”)
  
  Roman: plèće, plèća pl, plȅći f pl (“scapula”)
- Slovene: plêče (“scapula”)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: plece
  - Czech: plece
  - Knaanic: פְלֵצַא (pleca)
- Polabian: plicĕ
- Old Polish: plece
  - Middle Polish: plec m or f, plece n, pleca f, plecy pl, pleca pl
    - Polish: plecy pl
  - Silesian: pleca pl
- Old Slovak: plece
  - Slovak: plece
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: plecë pl
  - Slovincian: plêcë pl
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: placo
  - Upper Sorbian: pleco
- → Yiddish: פּלייצע (pleytse) (from an indeterminate Slavic language)