Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bľuščь

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

*bľuščьcь

Etymology

From *bľьvati (“to puke”) due to the reaction of man’s gastrointestinal system on its consumption or due to the ivy’s way of distribution. A theory that it is from the Old High German descendant of Proto-Germanic *blōstaz (“blossoming”) – which is in German Blust and in the rest of Proto-Germanic got expanded to *blōstmô – is reproofed because it is unlikely that a foreign word for “blossom” got borrowed for a plant which has hardly noticeable flowers. The similarity to Old Prussian bleusky (“rush”) is also most likely coincidental.

Noun

*bľuščь m

ivy (Hedera gen. et spp.)
bryony (Dioscorea communis and Bryonia spp.)
common hop (Humulus lupulus)

Inflection

Declension of *bľuščь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bľuščь	*bľušči	bľuščьje, bľušče^*
genitive	*bľušči	bľuščьju, bľušču^*	bľuščьjь, bľušči^*
dative	*bľušči	*bľuščьma	*bľuščьmъ
accusative	*bľuščь	*bľušči	*bľušči
instrumental	*bľuščьmь	*bľuščьma	*bľuščьmi
locative	*bľušči	bľuščьju, bľušču^*	*bľuščьxъ
vocative	*bľušči	*bľušči	bľuščьje, bľušče^*

^* 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).

Declension of *bľuščь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bľuščь	*bľušča	*bľušči
genitive	*bľušča	*bľušču	*bľuščь
dative	*bľušču	*bľuščema	*bľuščemъ
accusative	*bľuščь	*bľušča	*bľuščę̇
instrumental	bľuščьmь, bľuščemь^*	*bľuščema	*bľušči
locative	*bľušči	*bľušču	*bľuščixъ
vocative	*bľušču	*bľušča	*bľušči

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: блюшч (bljušč), oftener плюшч (pljušč)
- Russian: блющ (bljušč), but now плющ (pljušč, “ivy”)
- Ukrainian: блющ (bljušč, “ivy”), dialectally also плющ (pljušč)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: блюшть (bljuštĭ, “ivy”)
- Bulgarian: блюш (bljuš), плюш (pljuš, “common hop”) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Štokavian: bljȗšt (“black bryony; saliva preceding vomit”), and also current in parts of Dalmatia and Istra as blúšć (“black bryony”)
  
  Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: bljušč (“black bryony”)
  
  Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian: bljušč (“black bryony”)
  - ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: bljúštac, bljùštac (“bryony”)
- Slovene: bljúšč (“ivy; black bryony; white bryony”)
  - ⇒ Slovene: bljúščəc (“bryony”)
West Slavic:
- Czech: blúšč, blúšt (extinct except in idioms, one now uses břečťan)
- Old Polish: bluszcz
  - Polish: bluszcz
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: blušć, blišć
  - Upper Sorbian: blušć

References

Bezlaj, France (1976) Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Slovenian Language] (in Slovene), volumes 1 (A – J), Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, page 28
Ша́хматов, Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович (1912) “Slavische Wörter für Epheu”, in Festschrift: Vilhelm Thomsen zur Vollendung des siebzigsten Lebensjahres am 25. Januar 1912 (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 192–197
Štrekelj, Karel (1905) “Slavische Wortdeutungen”, in Archiv für slavische Philologie‎ (in German), volume 27, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, page 1905
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bľuščь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 138, seemingly confounding words for lungwort listed by Šulek from *pluťe (“lung”)
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “блющ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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