Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pluto

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *ploʔutó, *ploutó?, from Proto-Indo-European *ploh₃w-tó-m, *plow-tó-m?. Cognate with Latvian plàuts, Lithuanian plaũtas, Proto-Germanic *flauþī- (> Old Norse *fleyðr (“cross-beam”)), Latin pluteus (?), and Finnish lauta (“bath shelf, board”) (through either Baltic or Germanic).

Noun

*plūtò n

1. flotsam

Inflection

Declension of *plūtò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*plūtò	*plũtě	*plūtà
genitive	*plūtà	*plūtù	*plũtъ
dative	*plūtù	*plūtòma	*plūtòmъ
accusative	*plūtò	*plũtě	*plūtà
instrumental	*plūtъ̀mь, *plūtòmь*	*plūtòma	*plũty
locative	*plūtě̀	*plūtù	*plũtěxъ
vocative	*plūtò	*plũtě	*plūtà

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

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: плӯtо̏, плу́то (“flotsam”)

    Latin script: plūtȍ, plúto

• West Slavic:
  • Slovincian: [Term?] (“flotsam”)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plūtò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 406