Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/eleňь

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 forms

• *oly (Verweij)
• *eleňь (Derksen, jo-stem)
• *elenъ (Derksen, o-stem)

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *elenias, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁él-h₁ēn, from *h₁el- (“red deer, elk”).

Noun

*elỳ m

1. deer

Declension

Declension of *elỳ (n-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*elỳ	*elèni	*elène
genitive	*elène	*elènu	*elènъ
dative	*elèni	*elènьma	*elènьmъ
accusative	*elènь	*elèni	*elèni
instrumental	*elènьmь	*elènьma	*elènьmī
locative	*elène	*elènu	*elènьxъ
vocative	*elỳ	*elèni	*elène

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: олень (olenĭ)
    • Belarusian: але́нь (aljénʹ)
    • Russian: оле́нь (olénʹ)
    • Ukrainian: о́лень (ólenʹ), о́лінь (ólinʹ)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: ѥлень (jelenĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱗⰾⰵⱀⱐ (jęlenĭ)

  • Bulgarian: еле́н (elén)
  • Macedonian: елен (elen)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: јѐлен

    Latin script: jèlen

  • Slovene: jélen (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jelen
    • Czech: jelen
  • Kashubian: jeléń
  • Polish: jeleń
  • Silesian: lelyń
  • Slovak: jeleň
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jeleń
    • Upper Sorbian: jeleń

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*elenъ / *elenь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 20