Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paležь

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

Action noun of *paliti (“to burn”) +‎ *-ežь.

Noun

*paležь m

1. arson

Declension

Declension of *paležь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*paležь	*paleža	*paleži
genitive	*paleža	*paležu	*paležь
dative	*paležu	*paležema	*paležemъ
accusative	*paležь	*paleža	*paležę̇
instrumental	*paležьmь, *paležemь*	*paležema	*paleži
locative	*paleži	*paležu	*paležixъ
vocative	*paležu	*paleža	*paleži

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пале́ж (paléž)
  • Macedonian: палеж (palež)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: па́леж

    Latin script: pálež

Further reading

• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2018), “*paležь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 41 (*pala – *pažьnъ(јь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 31