Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plěšь

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

Cognate with Lithuanian pli̇̀kas (“bald”), pléikė (“bald patch”), Latvian pliks (“bare, bald”), possibly dialectal Norwegian flein (“bald patch”), mechanically from a Proto-Indo-European *ployḱh₂-o-,^[1] perhaps ultimately from a ḱ-extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to pluck, to trim, to splice”). By surface analysis, *plěxa (“cleansed spot”) +‎ *-ь.

Noun

*plě̑šь f^[1]^[2]

bald patch
Synonym: *lyso
baldness

Alternative forms

*plěša f

Declension

Declension of *plě̑šь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*plě̑šь	*plě̑ši	*plě̑ši
genitive	*plěší	plěšьjù, plěšu^*	*plěšь̀jь
dative	*plě̑ši	*plěšьmà	*plě̑šьmъ
accusative	*plě̑šь	*plě̑ši	*plě̑ši
instrumental	*plěšьjǫ́	*plěšьmà	*plěšьmì
locative	*plěší	plěšьjù, plěšu^*	*plě̑šьxъ
vocative	*plěši	*plě̑ši	*plě̑ši

^* 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).

Derived terms

*plěšьcь (“bald person”)
*plěšina (“baldness”)
*plěšivъ, *plěšastъ (“bald”)

Related terms

*plěxъ (“rare, faint, obscure”), *plěxavъ (“pale, faint”)
- *plěšiti (“to peel, to trim, to clear off”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
  - Belarusian: плеш (plješ)
  - Russian: плешь (plešʹ)
  - Ukrainian: плíш (plíš)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: плѣша (plěša)
  - Bulgarian: плеш (pleš) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Serbo-Croatian: пље̏ша (obsolete)
  
  Serbo-Croatian: pljȅša (obsolete)
- Slovene: plẹ̑š, plẹ́ša (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: pleš
- Old Polish: plesz
  - Polish: (obsolete) plesz
- Slovak: pleš (rare)
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: plěch
  - Upper Sorbian: plesa

→ Romanian: pleș (“bald”)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plě̑šь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 405: “f. i (c) ‘bald patch’”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “plẹ́ša”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *plě̋ša in *plě̋šь”

[EDSIL-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plě̑šь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 405: “f. i (c) ‘bald patch’”

[2] Snoj, Marko (2016) “plẹ́ša”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *plě̋ša in *plě̋šь”

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