Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kľunъ

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

Derived from *kľunǫti, perfective of *kľuti (“to peck”).

Noun

*kľunъ m^[1]

beak

Declension

Declension of *kľunъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kľunъ	*kľuna	*kľuni
genitive	*kľuna	*kľunu	*kľunъ
dative	*kľunu	*kľunoma	*kľunomъ
accusative	*kľunъ	*kľuna	*kľuny
instrumental	kľunъmь, kľunomь^*	*kľunoma	*kľuny
locative	*kľuně	*kľunu	*kľuněxъ
vocative	*kľune	*kľuna	*kľuni

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: клюнъ (kljunŭ)
  - ⇒ Belarusian: клю́нка (kljúnka) (dialectal)
  - Russian: клюн (kljun) (dialectal)
  - Ukrainian: клюн (kljun) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: клюн (kljun)
- Macedonian: клун (klun)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: кљу̑н
  
  Latin script: kljȗn
- Slovene: kljȗn (tonal orthography)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kľunъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 58

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kľunъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 58

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