Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/uklěja

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

• *ukleja

Etymology

Unknown. Synonym to today’s standard Lithuanian aukšlė̃ and Latvian aûsleja, also auslēja, auslejs. The formal discrepancy may be the effect of parallel borrowing from a substrate, after having shared the name with a similar fish, perhaps *klenь, *klěnь, but this looks like the same word.

Noun

*uklěja f

1. bleak (a leuciscine fish)

Declension

Declension of *uklěja (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*uklěja	*uklěji	*uklěję̇
genitive	*uklěję̇	*uklěju	*uklějь
dative	*uklěji	*uklějama	*uklějamъ
accusative	*uklějǫ	*uklěji	*uklěję̇
instrumental	*uklějejǫ, *uklějǫ**	*uklějama	*uklějami
locative	*uklěji	*uklěju	*uklějasъ, *uklějaxъ*
vocative	*uklěje	*uklěji	*uklěję̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: уклейка (ukljejka), укле́я́ (ukljéjá), вукляя́ (vukljajá), оклейка (ókljejka), оклея (ókljeja), клі́я (klíja), оклі́я (oklíja), уклия (uklija), уклія́ (uklijá) (dialectal only)
  • Russian: укле́йка (ukléjka), укле́я́ (ukléjá), sometimes still укле́й (ukléj) and see there for remoter forms. Generally, but sometimes, one did not write this fish-name with ѣ (jě) pre-1918.
  • Ukrainian: уклі́й (uklíj), оклі́й (oklíj), оклійка (oklijka), оклі́я́ (oklíjá), оклея (okleja), гуклея (hukleja), клия (klyja), вуклія (vuklija), вуклі́йка (vuklíjka), уклейка (uklejka), уклева (ukleva), уклея (ukleja) (dialectal only)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: о́кле́й (ókléj), укли́я (uklíja), укле́йка (ukléjka) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: у̀клија, у̀кљева, dialectally уклеја, уклица, укља, укљива, клејчица, клеја

    Latin script: ùklija, ùkljeva, dialectally ukleja, uklica, uklja, ukljiva, klejčica, kleja

  • Slovene: klẹ́ja, klejca (tonal orthography) (only dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ouklej, still in the 19th century úkleje, else úklej, in Moravian dialect then úkłajka, okłajka
  • Polish: ukleja, uklej, uklejka, oklej, okleja, oklejka
  • Slovak: ukleja, uklia (dialectal only)
  • Sorbian: *ukleja
    • Lower Sorbian: huklej, hukleja, wuklica
    • Upper Sorbian: wuklija, wuklica
    • → Middle High German: uklei
      • German: Ukelei, Uklei, Uckelei, Ucklei, Okelei, Oklei, Ockelei, Ocklei, Ikelei, Iklei, Ickelei, Icklei, Ükelei, Üklei, Ückelei, Ücklei
    • → Middle Low German: uklei
      • German Low German: Üklei, Ückel etc.

References

• Kolomijec, V. T. (1983) Происхождение общеславянских названий рыб [The Origin of the Common Slavic Names of Fish] (К IX Международному съезду славистов) (in Russian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, pages 89-93