Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/poklonъ

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

Deverbal of *pokloniti. Equivalent to *po- +‎ *kloniti (“to incline, slant”).

Noun

*poklonъ m

1. bow (as in bowing down)

Declension

Declension of *poklonъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*poklonъ	*poklona	*pokloni
genitive	*poklona	*poklonu	*poklonъ
dative	*poklonu	*poklonoma	*poklonomъ
accusative	*poklonъ	*poklona	*poklony
instrumental	*poklonъmь, *poklonomь*	*poklonoma	*poklony
locative	*pokloně	*poklonu	*pokloněxъ
vocative	*poklone	*poklona	*pokloni

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: поклонъ (poklonŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: покло́нъ (poklón)
      • Belarusian: пакло́н (paklón)
      • Ukrainian: поклі́н (poklín)
    • Russian: покло́н (poklón)
  • Old Novgorodian: поклоне (poklone), поклоно (poklono), поколоно (pokolono)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: поклонъ (poklonŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱁⰽⰾⱁⱀⱏ (poklonŭ)

    • Bulgarian: покло̀н (poklòn)
    • Macedonian: поклон (poklon)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀клон

    Latin script: pòklon

• West Slavic:
  • Polish: pokłon

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1967), “клонить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Е – Муж), Moscow: Progress, page 253