Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/selmę

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

Cognate with Lithuanian šelmuõ m (“roof ridge”).

Noun

*sèlmę n

1. top, peak
2. ridge (of construction)

Declension

Declension of *sèlmę (n-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sèlmę	*sèlmeni	*sèlmenā
genitive	*sèlmene	*sèlmenu	*sèlmenъ
dative	*sèlmeni	*sèlmenьma	*sèlmenьmъ
accusative	*sèlmę	*sèlmeni	*sèlmenā
instrumental	*sèlmenьmь	*sèlmenьma	*sèlmenȳ
locative	*sèlmene	*sèlmenu	*sèlmenьxъ
vocative	*sèlmę	*sèlmeni	*sèlmenā

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: слѣмѧ (slěmę)
    • → Russian: сле́мя (slémja)
  • Bulgarian: сле́ме (sléme) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: слеме (sleme)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сле̏ме, сље̏ме

    Latin script: slȅme, sljȅme

  • Slovene: sléme
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: slémě
    • Czech: slemeno
    • → Ukrainian: слеме́но (sleméno)
  • Polish: ślemię
    • → Belarusian: ашла́н (ašlán)
  • Slovak: slemä

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сле́мя”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “слемено”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka