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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polvъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *palwas.

Adjective

*polvъ[1]

  1. pale yellow, yellow-white
  2. pale
  3. (dialectal) white, pale blue

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: половъ (polovŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: плавъ (plavŭ, white)
      Glagolitic: ⱂⰾⰰⰲⱏ (plavŭ, white)
      • Church Slavonic (Russian recension): плавъ (plavŭ, white)
    • Bulgarian: плав (plav)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пла̑в (blonde, blue)
      Latin script: plȃv (blonde, blue)
    • Slovene: plàv (blue) (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

See also

Colors in Proto-Slavic · *mȃsti (layout · text)
     *bělъ
(of animals) *bronъ
     *sivъ, *śěrъ, *śědъ      *čьrnъ, *smaglъ, *smǫglъ
(of animals) *vornъ, *galъ
             *čьrvenъ, *ryďь, *ruměnъ              *rudъ, *granivъ; *smědъ
(of animals) *gnědъ
             *žьltъ
(of animals) *solvъ; *polvъ
             *zelenъ              *zelenъ, *grěnъ             
                          *polvъ              *siňь; *modrъ
             *slivъ              *bagrъ             

Further reading

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

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*polvъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 412
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