Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polěno

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

Related to *polěti (“to burn”), which is akin to *paliti.

Noun

*polěno n

1. log

Inflection

Declension of *polěno (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*polěno	*polěně	*polěna
genitive	*polěna	*polěnu	*polěnъ
dative	*polěnu	*polěnoma	*polěnomъ
accusative	*polěno	*polěně	*polěna
instrumental	*polěnъmь, *polěnomь*	*polěnoma	*polěny
locative	*polěně	*polěnu	*polěněxъ
vocative	*polěno	*polěně	*polěna

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: полѣно (polěno)
    • Belarusian: пале́на (paljéna)
    • Russian: поле́но (poléno)
    • Ukrainian: полі́но (políno)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: полѣно (polěno)

  • Macedonian: полено (poleno)
  • Slovene: polẹ́nọ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: poleno
  • Polish: polano
  • Slovak: роlеnо

Further reading

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