Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/platús

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us with unexpected o-grade.

Slavic descendants don't show agreement on the root-vowel length: North Slavic exhibit short grade, while South Slavic - long.

Adjective

*platús

1. wide, broad

Inflection

Mobile accent.

Descendants

• East Baltic:
  • Latgalian: plots
  • Latvian: plats
  • Lithuanian: platùs
• Slavic: (forms names of types of flatfish)
  • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *ploty, *plotica, *plotъka (North Slavic)
  • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *platy, *platyka, *platuxa, *platunъ, *platica (South Slavic)

References

Further reading

• “platus”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плотва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “платика”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 317