Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šelmъ

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

Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *helm (“helmet”).

Noun

*šelmъ m

helmet

Inflection

Declension of *šẽlmъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*šẽlmъ	*šēlmà	*šēlmì
genitive	*šēlmà	*šēlmù	*šẽlmъ
dative	*šēlmù	*šēlmòma	*šēlmòmъ
accusative	*šẽlmъ	*šēlmà	*šēlmỳ
instrumental	šēlmъ̀mь, šēlmòmь^*	*šēlmòma	*šẽlmy
locative	*šēlmě̀	*šēlmù	*šẽlměxъ
vocative	*šelme	*šēlmà	*šēlmì

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: шеломъ (šelomŭ)
  - Belarusian: шало́м (šalóm)
  - Russian: шело́м (šelóm) (obsolete)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: шлем (šlem) (Ruthenian)
  - Ukrainian: шолом (šolom)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: шлѣмъ (šlěmŭ)
  - → Russian: шлем (šlem)
- Bulgarian: шлем (šlem)
- Macedonian: шлем (šlem)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: шле̏м
  
  Latin script: šljȅm
- Slovene: šlẹ̀m (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: szłóm
- Old Polish: szłom

References

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