Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/selmę

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 šelmuõ m (“roof ridge”).

Noun

*sèlmę n[1]

  1. top, peak
  2. ridge (of construction)

Declension

Declension of *sèlmę (n-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *sèlmę *sèlmeni *sèlmenā
genitive *sèlmene *sèlmenu *sèlmenъ
dative *sèlmeni *sèlmenьma *sèlmenьmъ
accusative *sèlmę *sèlmeni *sèlmenā
instrumental *sèlmenьmь *sèlmenьma *sèlmenȳ
locative *sèlmene *sèlmenu *sèlmenьxъ
vocative *sèlmę *sèlmeni *sèlmenā

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: слѣмѧ (slěmę)
      • → Russian: сле́мя (slémja)
    • Bulgarian: сле́ме (sléme) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: слеме (sleme)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: сле̏ме, сље̏ме
      Latin script: slȅme, sljȅme
    • Slovene: sléme
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: slémě
      • Czech: slemeno
      • → Ukrainian: слеме́но (sleméno)
    • Old Polish: ślemię
      • Polish: ślemię
        • → Belarusian: ашла́н (ašlán)
    • Slovak: slemä

References

  1. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *se̋lmę, rod. *se̋lmene”

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сле́мя”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “слемено”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
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