Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/poľana

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 *poľe.

Noun

*poľana f

1. meadow, glade

Declension

Declension of *poľana (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*poľana	*poľaně	*poľany
genitive	*poľany	*poľanu	*poľanъ
dative	*poľaně	*poľanama	*poľanamъ
accusative	*poľanǫ	*poľaně	*poľany
instrumental	*poľanojǫ, *poľanǫ**	*poľanama	*poľanami
locative	*poľaně	*poľanu	*poľanasъ, *poľanaxъ*
vocative	*poľano	*poľaně	*poľany

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: полѧна (polęna)
    • Old Ruthenian: полѧна (poljana), полѣна (polěna)
      • Belarusian: паля́на (paljána)
      • Ukrainian: поля́на (poljána)
    • Russian: поля́на (poljána)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Russian Church Slavonic: полꙗна (poljana)
    • Serbian Church Slavonic: полꙗна (poljana)
  • Bulgarian: поля́на (poljána)
  • Macedonian: полјана (poljana)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀љана

    Latin script: pòljana

  • Slovene: poljána (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: pòlana
  • Polish: polana
  • Slovak: poľana

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: poiană

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поля́на”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress