Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/poľana

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 *poľe.

Noun

*poľana f

  1. meadow, glade

Declension

Declension of *poľana (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *poľana *poľaně *poľany
genitive *poľany *poľanu *poľanъ
dative *poľaně *poľanama *poľanamъ
accusative *poľanǫ *poľaně *poľany
instrumental *poľanojǫ, *poľanǫ** *poľanama *poľanami
locative *poľaně *poľanu *poľanasъ, *poľanaxъ*
vocative *poľano *poľaně *poľany

* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: полѧна (polęna)
      • Old Ruthenian: полѧна (poljana), полѣна (polěna)
        • Belarusian: паля́на (paljána)
        • Ukrainian: поля́на (poljána)
      • Russian: поля́на (poljána)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      • Russian Church Slavonic: полꙗна (poljana)
      • Serbian Church Slavonic: полꙗна (poljana)
    • Bulgarian: поля́на (poljána)
    • Macedonian: полјана (poljana)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: по̀љана
      Latin script: pòljana
    • Slovene: poljána (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Kashubian: pòlana
    • Polish: polana
    • Slovak: poľana

Further reading

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