Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelynъ

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *pelynь

Etymology

Per Vasmer, from the root of *polěti (“to burn”), which is akin to *paliti (“to burn, to singe”). Other proposals include relation with Proto-Slavic *pelvelъ (“weed”), *polvъ (“pale”).

Noun

*pelynъ m

1. artemisia, wormwood

Inflection

Declension of *pelynъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pelynъ	*pelyna	*pelyni
genitive	*pelyna	*pelynu	*pelynъ
dative	*pelynu	*pelynoma	*pelynomъ
accusative	*pelynъ	*pelyna	*pelyny
instrumental	*pelynъmь, *pelynomь*	*pelynoma	*pelyny
locative	*pelyně	*pelynu	*pelyněxъ
vocative	*pelyne	*pelyna	*pelyni

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пелꙑнъ (pelynŭ), пелꙑнь (pelynĭ)
    • Belarusian: полы́н (polýn)
    • Russian: полы́нь f (polýnʹ)
    • Ukrainian: поли́н (polýn)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пели́н (pelín)
  • Macedonian: пе́лин (pélin)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пѐлин

    Latin script: pèlin

  • Slovene: реlín (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: peluň, pelyň (obsolete)
    • ⇒ Czech: pelyněk
  • Old Polish: piołon, piołun, piołyn
    • Polish: piołun

Further reading

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