плѣнъ

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pelnъ.

плѣнъ • (plěnŭ) m

1. booty, spoils, plunder
   • “ⰲⱏ ⱂⰾⱑⱀⱏ”, in Kiev Missal‎^[1] (in Old Church Slavonic), 915±35?, page (leaf) 4.5, line 12:

     ⰺ҆ ⱀⰵ ⱁ҆ⱅⱏⰴ́ⰰⰸⱐ ⱀⰰⱎⰵⰳⱁ ⱅⱆⰸⰺ̆ⰿⱏ · ⰺ҆ ⱀⰵ ⱁ҆ⰱⱃⰰⱅⰹ ⱀⰰ́ⱄⱏ ⰲⱏ ⱂⰾⱑ̆ⱀⱏ ⱀⰰⱃⱁⰴⱁⰿⱏ ⱂⱁⰳⰰⱀⱐⱄⰽⱏⰹⰿⱏ ·

     i҆ ne o҆tŭd́azĭ našego tuzĭmŭ · i҆ ne o҆brati násŭ vŭ plě̆nŭ narodomŭ poganĭskymŭ ·

     And do not give away what is ours to strangers, and do not turn us into the plunder/captives of pagan peoples.

2. captivity

• плѣньникъ (plěnĭnikŭ)

• Bulgarian: плен (plen)
• Macedonian: плен (plen)
• → Old East Slavic: плѣнъ (plěnŭ)
  • Old Ruthenian: плѣ́нъ (plě́n)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: плїн (pljin)
  • Russian: плен (plen)

• “плѣнъ”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плѣнъ (plěnŭ). Doublet of полонъ (polonŭ).

• Hyphenation: плѣ‧нъ

плѣнъ (plěnŭ) m

1. captivity
2. loot, spoils

• Old Ruthenian: плѣ́нъ (plě́n)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: плїн (pljin)
• Russian: плен (plen)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “плѣнъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 986