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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pluto

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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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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *plauˀtá, from Proto-Indo-European *plowtóm, *plewt-. Cognate with Latvian plàuts, Lithuanian plaũtas, Proto-Germanic *flauþī- (> Old Norse *fleyðr (cross-beam)), Latin pluteus, and Finnish lauta (bath shelf, board) (through either Baltic or Germanic).

Noun

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*plūtò n

  1. flotsam

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: плу̏то, плу̏та
      Latin script: plȕto, plȕta
  • West Slavic:

References

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  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plūtò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 406