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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ely

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

Eventually from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-h₁en (“red deer, elk”).[4][6]

Noun

*elỳ m[4]

  1. deer

Declension

According to Klotz, initially, the form belonged to the consonant stem and accent paradigm a.[5] According to Verweij, the form belongs to the accent paradigm b.[1]

Declension of *elỳ (n-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *elỳ *elèni *elène
genitive *elène *elènu *elènъ
dative *elèni *elènьma *elènьmъ
accusative *elènь *elèni *elèni
instrumental *elènьmь *elènьma *elènьmī
locative *elène *elènu *elènьxъ
vocative *elỳ *elèni *elène
nouns

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: олень (olenĭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: ѥлень (jelenĭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⱗⰾⰵⱀⱐ (jęlenĭ)
      • Church Slavonic: елень (elenĭ) (Russian recension)
    • Bulgarian: еле́н (elén)
    • Macedonian: елен (elen)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: јѐлен, јѐљен, јѐлин; је̏лен (dialectal)
      Latin script: jèlen, jèljen, jèlin; jȅlen (dialectal)
    • Slovene: jélen (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References
  1. Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 540
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “jélen”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
  3. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*eleņь; *elenъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 140
  4. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*elenъ / *elenь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 20
  5. Klotz, Emanuel (2017) “*e̱leni”, in Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in German), 1st edition, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN, page 101
  6. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 253
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